Performance Art Quotes

“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.”
― Lady Gaga

“The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.”
― Marina Abramovic

“Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?”
― William Gibson

“Any show that breaks the monotony works. If the end product is good, nothing can stop it from being successful.”
― Kunal Karan Kapoor

“I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I am a she. The mask is a he, or is actually gender-neutral. People love the character.”
― K. Guillory

“The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight”
― Joshua Teya

“We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and
stages of life - and even saves lives.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.”
― A.E. Samaan

“I'm like a circus standing on two legs.”
― Nuno Roque

“Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We often assume the religious are superstitious, but maybe they are performance artists instead, embodying ideas which wander namelessly—dangerously—through the psyche.”
― Sondra Charbadze, The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language

“Girl dancer! Oh you shifting
Of all that passes into steps: how you manage that!
And the eddy at the end, a tree made from a vortex,
Does it not take full possession of the swirling year?

And the tip of your tree, does it not blossom
Quietly above you, from your spinning? Is it not
Your limitless warmth, the sun,
The summer, its heat?

But your tree of ecstasy bears,
Gives quiet fruit: the flagon streaked with ripeness,
And the vase riper still.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“Oh arrive and leave. You were still half a child,
Completing a dancing pose for but a moment,
The pure form of a star constellation, which is
One of the ways in which we overcome the mindless random order

Of Nature, also just for a moment. For it was only when Orpheus sang
That Nature awoke and heard, was quickened in alertness.
Though far away in time, this stirred you. And you were somewhat
Surprised that a tree considered so slowly and hesitated

To join with you in hearing it.
You sensed the very place where the lyre
Raised itself aloft -; the mid-point which has never been heard.

For you ventured your beautiful steps
And you hoped, one day in holy celebration
To alter the course and countenance of your friend.
(Her friend is himself.)”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“An artist who works from impulse creates pathways for his body and emotion; the lines will naturally ride on waves of his or her emotion or sometimes get drowned in it”
― Val Uchendu

“Ii do not walk with alienation everywhere I go in the world. I have been to small taverns in rural Ohio, big city bars, San Francisco bath houses, and in all these have felt welcome and happy. But walking through that sunglassed throng, I felt like a Martian. I didn't hate the feeling - indeed, being a black woman in the academy, it wasn't new to me - but it was interesting. I kept wondering: where is the performance? When will the performance start? Is this the performance - me walking through this space without sunglasses with all these Nordic quasi-hipster white people in multi-colored, motorcycle cop sunglasses?”
― Gabrielle Civil, Swallow the Fish

“Aliens (intermediate programmers) are not creating computer games in the ordinary sense of the term. These games are more like works of art, improvisational theater, performance art, scientific and philosophic investigation and historical novels.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“Music arrives when the Muse comes around.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Performance art is different. I meet things directly. I see death and lust in audience’s eyes. Depending on what I see in their eyes, my work changes immediately. If the purpose of art is to confront beauty, especially live beauty, aren’t all other artistic forms fake? They are compromises and the residue of the desire for useless immortality. All criticism of performance art starts with the fear of true beauty. People preserve beauty because of their obsession with immortality. They are slaves of dead art.”
― Kim Young-ha, I Have The Right To Destroy Myself

“Every evening the duo gradually elevated themselves from the podium, dismissing gravity.”
― Marin ., Art

“Where words end, eyes begin, and hands weave timeless stories, that's the art of Kathakali.”
― Raigon Stanley