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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1167)

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I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
David Antin
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If you have to do durational work, you have to train! No bullshit. You can't do it for three months. You can do it for five hours, 10 hours, and then you have three months rest. If this is your job, you have to be flexible.
Marina Abramovic
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Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.
Yoko Ono
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I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
Faith Ringgold
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Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are
Chris Burden
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The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days
Ayumi Hamasaki
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
Robert Rauschenberg
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[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.
Jessica Hagedorn
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
Yoko Ono
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I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.
Yoko Ono
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Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.
Marina Abramovic
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My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.
Dennis Cooper
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We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.
Yoko Ono
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
Yoko Ono
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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.
Marina Abramovic
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I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades.
Cory Arcangel
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It's kind of hard get outside of your own frame of reference. To one degree or another, we all go through our breakdowns and we can recognize our lives as a path to awakening or not. We can take our breakdowns as a way to sensitize us or as an excuse to blind and dull ourselves.
Alex Grey
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I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.
Shia LaBeouf
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I had many clients who didn't respect me, probably because of how they were raised. We're all the walking wounded.
Annie Sprinkle
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To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
Shia LaBeouf
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I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.
Vaginal Davis
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To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
Shia LaBeouf
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I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
Jessica Hagedorn
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