Quotes of: Performance-art Keyword

Homer Stokes: This band of miscreants, this very evening, interfered with a lynch mob in the performance of its duty.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of words and phrases writers inspire their readers to imagine, to conjure images, to suspend disbelief, to e...

Mindie Burgoyne

I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for thr...

Jenna Ushkowitz

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculp...

Camille Paglia

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

I don't get to do a lot of fight scenes on 'Sanctuary,' but I'm a trained fighter; I've been doing martial arts for years and, you know, I'm very active physically; I used to be a circus performer.

Ryan Robbins

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

Sadie Frost

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's n...

Vincent Kartheiser

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Michael Tippett

My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.

Erin Andrews

I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the prof...

Merritt Wever

I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit, but when you're performing, you tend to pull punches because you don't want to hurt anyone.

Jason David Frank

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Jill Bennett

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Kurt Vonnegut

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms ...

Antony Gormley

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Amanda Palmer

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

Dave Holland

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

Marla Sokoloff

I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.

Glenne Headly

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Anthony Anderson

Each asana is like a sound or letter in an alphabet. Every letter in an alphabet produces a unique sound vibration. Each asana vibrates at a specific frequency. When asanas are performed in sequence, beautiful phrases or sutras result, producing a my...

The Art of Yoga