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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1167)

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We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.
Yoko Ono
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Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.
Tino Sehgal
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
Laurie Anderson
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I love to engage people who think differently than I do.
Annie Sprinkle
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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
David Antin
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In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
Yoko Ono
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Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.
Tristan Tzara
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I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
Kiki Smith
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I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.
Marina Abramovic
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One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.
Robert Rauschenberg
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
David Antin
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
Laurie Anderson
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
Robert Rauschenberg
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
Kiki Smith
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Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.
Faith Ringgold
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I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.
Jim Dine
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Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance. They're just healthy little fires that are gonna warm up my ass
Ze Frank
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
Laurie Anderson
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An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.
Leslie Hall
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Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.
Dennis Cooper
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Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!
Yoko Ono
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
Yoko Ono
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
Yoko Ono
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