Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
On the Sivaratri day after performing the routine, the devotee shall go to the temple of Siva and perform worship.
Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.
For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.
I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing, it's not really... You're not performing like a guitar player or a singer is performing, you know what I mean? So it's weird to be in the same type setup as...
He that performs his own errand, saves his messanger's hire.
But technology is simply the making of things and the making of things can't by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the making of things. Actually a root word of technology, , originally ...
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.
