9 Quotes About Performance Art

Art is a very personal process, and as such, it can be hard to determine what it means to others and how to best approach it. But, as we all know, art does not always have to be beautiful or even beautiful to succeed. Sometimes ugly work has the greatest power, and that’s the type of art we’re talking about here. We’ve put together a collection of quotes about performance art, such as performance art quotes about beauty, but we’ve also included performance art quotes about what we love to do.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an...
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I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. Kamand Kojouri
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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
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I'm like a circus standing on two legs. Nuno Roque
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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
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Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century. A.E. Samaan
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The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight Joshua Teya
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If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light. Lady Gaga
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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