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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1167)

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When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.
Yoko Ono
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The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.
William T. Wiley
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I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.
Charlemagne Palestine
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
Laurie Anderson
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
Yoko Ono
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My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!
Ayumi Hamasaki
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
Yoko Ono
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Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
Marina Abramovic
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The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.
Robert Rauschenberg
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
Robert Rauschenberg
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First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Marina Abramovic
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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
Laurie Anderson
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The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
Faith Ringgold
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
Laurie Anderson
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Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
Laurie Anderson
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
Marina Abramovic
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Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
Marina Abramovic
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I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.
Vaginal Davis
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
Laurie Anderson
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I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.
Mona Hatoum
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Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms... Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.
Joseph Beuys
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Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
Yves Klein
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