Quotes of: Performance-art Keyword

He was a man, he always performed his promises.

Zebulon Pike

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

Bob Greene

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

Barry Mann

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

Cecilia Bartoli

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

Peter Davison

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Lord Kelvin

Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.

Peter Storey

We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation—and born into the stories told of each of these.

Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state ...

Chinese Art of Tea

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.

Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore: Love, Marriage and the Art of Intimacy

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

If you want to understand why you are here on earth, you must first examine who you are on the inside. There are no accidents. There are no mistakes. Everything you need to be great is already inside of you.

Exist No More: The Art of Squeezing The Most Out of Life

But he did not believe ordinary citizens created art. True art was anomalous; it was a rare mutation. It didn't happen simply because one willed it so. He thought it an utter and exasperating waste of an ordinary man's time.

Euphoria

sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.

The Fine Art of Truth or Dare

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

The Flanders Panel

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

The French Art of Revenge

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

The Gift of Asher Lev

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing.

The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.

Gist of Art: Principles and Practise Expounded in the Classroom and Studio