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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1167)

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The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
Laurie Anderson
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The best movies are simple.
Shia LaBeouf
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Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.
Yoko Ono
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Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.
Bruce Nauman
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Yoko Ono
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And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
Bruce Nauman
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You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
Laurie Anderson
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I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.
Yoko Ono
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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
Laurie Anderson
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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
Laurie Anderson
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When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
Marina Abramovic
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I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.
Claes Oldenburg
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
Yoko Ono
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When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera. He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.
Marina Abramovic
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Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.
Yoko Ono
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I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
Bruce Nauman
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
Yoko Ono
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Music is the softest cushion in the world.
Niki de Saint Phalle
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My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
Shia LaBeouf
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I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.
Keith Sonnier
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Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.
Allan Kaprow
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