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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1167)

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I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.
Marina Abramovic
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I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.
Candis Cayne
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I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
Claes Oldenburg
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Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
Robert Rauschenberg
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When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!
Kiki Smith
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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
Laurie Anderson
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Animation has completely changed and I've always been a big fan.
Shia LaBeouf
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There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.
Claes Oldenburg
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
Laurie Anderson
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If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.
Shia LaBeouf
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Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
Marina Abramovic
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In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
Tania Bruguera
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
Laurie Anderson
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The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
Claes Oldenburg
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At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.
Chris Burden
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
Kiki Smith
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We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.
Shia LaBeouf
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I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.
Cory Arcangel
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My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of her melodies, and had some of the hospice participants sing it, because they said they liked to sing. Their singing is very raw, but I'm going to use it for the final work.
Meredith Monk
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
David Antin
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Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
Yoko Ono
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I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
David Antin
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
Yoko Ono
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