Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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Related The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think ... LARRY GAGOSIAN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia d... TROY GARITY Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation. ELVIS MITCHELL Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it&... JACK BOWMAN We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. AHMED BEST There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very com... HALEY JOEL OSMENT All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere... JACK BOWMAN One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. KEVIN BACON For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it&... ELLEN FORNEY I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started makin... MARY LYNN RAJSKUB Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. MARINA ABRAMOVIC The official line on FCS is that it is on budget and on schedule. But that may be more a reflection ... LOREN THOMPSON We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. S... JACK BOWMAN Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memo... MARINA ABRAMOVIC It's glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked i... BROOKE ADAMS Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking... JACKIE EVANCHO Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. ROGER STONE It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a... HAROLD S. GENEEN Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance... ADRIAN MITCHELL Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I ... JOAKIM NOAH I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art hi... BARRY MCGEE My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are ge... IGGY POP I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. LIZ PHAIR One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicia... THOM YORKE Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. ARSENE WENGER I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen the... VINCENT KARTHEISER Because it's a trade more so than an art form, the principles are fairly straightforward. But it req... JUSTIN WINSTANLEY For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and ... HANS-ULRICH OBRIST We are going to have another good year next year, but my feeling is that the days of 15 to 20 percen... BYRON WIEN This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature&... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real. GIN WIGMORE It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal... AIDAN GILLEN Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. BARRY EISLER I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and the... MAGGIE SMITH From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that y... LAURIE ANDERSON The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people t... JR When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We... HANS HAACKE I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more ... LARRY WILCOX The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is... ALEXANDER KLUGE PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA It is much more difficult to measure non performance than performance. HAROLD S. GENEEN The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting. JACK BOWMAN Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitim... KEVIN MITNICK It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'Tis ... HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a cra... SAM SHEPARD When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that... STEVE KAZEE A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and M... HANS HAACKE We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it... BILLY AL BENGSTON You see, there are always purists in every, in every art form and particularly I think in, in perfor... TIM CURRY Coach Wright has mastered the art of getting the highest level of performance from his players. By f... GARY STOKAN The public school experience is more than test-taking . . . but the fact is, graduation is based on ... PAUL MERO Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited marti... JOE ROGAN For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playi... SHEA HEMBREY I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - ... MIKE FIGGIS The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, ... LEILA SALES It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure o... JACKI WEAVER Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel not so terrible about my various emotional... COLSON WHITEHEAD Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys ... JASON BATEMAN What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i... ALBERT BROOKS The fashion world is 10,000 times more superficial than the art world. Fashion people are so much cr... MARILYN MINTER It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belitt... GRIMES They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. CHARLIE PARKER When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older,... PATRICK STUMP Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that ... SARAH KAY Art and science are intrinsically the same except for one thing. The universe is in control of your ... HARRY KROTO As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you'... JAKE OWEN An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that... BAT FOR LASHES It's like our end-of-year performance; we're going to be assessed on our performance. ELISHA PARRY The other thing to keep in mind is, it's not just about uptime. It's also about performance and resp... LIZ HERBERT I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything,... VINCE CLARKE There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the rene... ARNE GLIMCHER I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. CARL ANDRE Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical com... BETTY BUCKLEY Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, bu... SAVION GLOVER It is going to be good, quality art as well as something interesting to the community. JANET JOHNSON I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyon... BARRY MCGEE Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove... CAMILLE PAGLIA I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the phy... CHRIS PINE It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the od... MARY STEENBURGEN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what... LARRY GAGOSIAN Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the ar... CHARLES SAATCHI There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's ... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ALDOUS HUXLEY The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that ... RAFAEL VINOLY You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else. IOAN GRUFFUDD I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more... ELISABETH VON THURN UND TAXIS I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much plan... PRIYANKA CHOPRA The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he jus... RICK PITINO A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility ... JACK BOWMAN Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture ... RYAN KAVANAUGH I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. AMANDA PALMER There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at ... LONI LOVE The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Gree... GEOFF JOHNS Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using ... NATHAN MYHRVOLD
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