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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1163)

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It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
Allan Kaprow
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Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
Allan Kaprow
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This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
Allan Kaprow
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The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
Allan Kaprow
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
Laurie Anderson
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Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Matthew Barney
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My family, my parents are hippies.
Shia LaBeouf
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I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.
Charlemagne Palestine
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I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.
Alex Grey
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A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.
Alex Grey
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
Alex Grey
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Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.
Alex Grey
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Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.
Alex Grey
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Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
Alex Grey
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
Alex Grey
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The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
Alex Grey
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Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.
Alex Grey
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Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.
Alex Grey
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Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
Alex Grey
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Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
David Antin
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One year to me is just a small section of life. For most humans, one year is a long time and so much happens. But for the universe, it's very temporary.
Tehching Hsieh
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There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
Shia LaBeouf
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