Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
[Self] Perception is directly proportional to performance. Change a youth's perception, and you change their performance, their future... and their life.
I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.
I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.
I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.
As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all.
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.
When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.
