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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1167)

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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Yoko Ono
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I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
Shia LaBeouf
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The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists to get over auction houses, galleries, and high-production-value exhibitions and start using our voices again.
Maurizio Cattelan
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Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.
Shia LaBeouf
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I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'
David Wojnarowicz
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We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.
Marina Abramovic
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The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.
Alex Grey
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I'm not moving from an ideological standpoint. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life better. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life worse! I'm trying to find a happy medium that I can make some sense of.
Kiki Smith
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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
Laurie Anderson
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Yoko Ono
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To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.
Yoko Ono
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Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.
Charlemagne Palestine
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The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.
Claes Oldenburg
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I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.
Marina Abramovic
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
Laurie Anderson
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I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.
Shia LaBeouf
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Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
Lydia Lunch
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
Yoko Ono
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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
Kiki Smith
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
Yoko Ono
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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
Yoko Ono
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I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body
Ana Mendieta
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All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono
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At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.
Chris Burden
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