Performance Art Quotes

• Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

  Laurie Anderson

  Art, Joy, Kind

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• Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Art, Ideas, Sociology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Art, Queens

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• I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

  Mike Figgis

  Art, Live Theatre, Film

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• I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.

  Troy Garity

  Art, Fun, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

  James Marsters

  Art, House, Myopic

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• We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

  Joseph Jarman

  Art, Calling, Performances

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

  Amanda Palmer

  Art, Simple, Thinking

  "Ukelele Techno Sucks: Interview With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 30, 2008.

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• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Thinking, People

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• When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.

  Vaginal Davis

  Art, Entertaining, Performances

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Teaching is performance art.

  Kate Clinton

  Art, Teaching, Performances

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.35, Bywater Books

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• First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Giving, Firsts

  "Marina Abramovic makes undance shut up". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com.

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• From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Attitude, Documentation

  "Sundcase Interview | Marina Abramovic Explains How HBO and Lady Gaga Bring Performance Art to a New Audience". Interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

  Nita Engle

  Art, Moving, Paper

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• I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Art, Symphony, Collaboration

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• My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

  Sadie Frost

  Art, Father, Anarchist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.

  Colson Whitehead

  Art, Hipster, Emotional

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• I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Art, Fun, School

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• The whole point of what I do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, I wanna create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate because I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak, so I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel alone.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, School, Space

  "Lady Gaga: On the Record with Fuse". TV Movie, 2009.

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• We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

  Regina King

  Art, Play, People

  "Regina King’s Primetime". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 13, 2015.

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• Right now anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I'm not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to make to be done for such a passing blip. When it stabilizes, I'll look at it.

  Art Spiegelman

  Art, Ipads, Looks

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It was at a performance art space that's no longer around, Gusto House... All of these great performers from all over the country lived on the Lower East Side, and they would take somebody's living room that opened right onto the street, open the door and charge tickets and put up chairs.

  John Leguizamo

  Country, Art, Doors

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we talk about the movie, it's kind of a mix between melodrama and cinéma vérité. This involves ideas about playing the role of yourself and the movie of your life and all these other things.

  Robert Greene

  Art, Real, Ideas

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, Distance, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Art, Hats, Goofy

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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