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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1167)

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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
Laurie Anderson
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My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
Marina Abramovic
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I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.
Lydia Lunch
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It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.
Yoko Ono
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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
Marina Abramovic
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Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.
Jessica Hagedorn
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
Marina Abramovic
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Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.
Claes Oldenburg
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If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
Yoko Ono
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Art can't be compared with journalism it can't deal with concrete issues.
Mona Hatoum
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I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
David Antin
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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
Marina Abramovic
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I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.
Marina Abramovic
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I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
Yoko Ono
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I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
David Antin
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A canvas is never empty.
Robert Rauschenberg
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To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.
Joseph Beuys
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Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.
Kiki Smith
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
Laurie Anderson
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Curiosity is the main energy.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.
Yoko Ono
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Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.
Ze Frank
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For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.
Jim Dine
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