20 Performance Art Quotes for You to Enjoy

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. Roger Stone

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

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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting. Yoko Ono

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I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop. Adrian Younge

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Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture. Amy Hill

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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience. Jack Bowman

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I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band. Jason Bateman

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

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My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is. Ken Liu

We have a very physical performance art. A lot of times, when you want to achieve a certain emotion, you have to use professional wrestling ingredients, which are moves or a sequence of moves. Kenny Omega

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I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. Liz Phair

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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

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It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level. Mark Roberts

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I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done. Matt Besser

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A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater. Roberta Smith

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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

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