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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1167)

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It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!
Jessica Hagedorn
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I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.
Claes Oldenburg
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Art for me is like breathing.
Yoko Ono
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People who have been prostitutes are ten times more willing to be johns than the average person. So, if you've been paid for sex you understand the value of that experience on some level.
Annie Sprinkle
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Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.
Allan Kaprow
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Sex is normal and natural, and we've made it abnormal and unnatural.
Annie Sprinkle
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I'm an individual, and I have opinions.
Shia LaBeouf
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
Marina Abramovic
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
Yoko Ono
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
Yoko Ono
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It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue'.
Yves Klein
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I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.
Marina Abramovic
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
Robert Rauschenberg
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I like Richard Serra sculptures too but I wish they had a goddamn hot dog stand inside.
Vito Acconci
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People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
Shia LaBeouf
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
Laurie Anderson
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Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
Shia LaBeouf
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A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.
Annie Sprinkle
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What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.
Jordan Wolfson
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Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back.
Genesis P-Orridge
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Potential audiences are real people found in real places.
Suzanne Lacy
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My life was pretty rough.
Yoko Ono
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I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
Joseph Beuys
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The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.
Yoko Ono
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