#performance art

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#became #called #film #i #intrigued

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#between #difference #good #mere #performance

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on. ↗

— James Marsters

#art #back #connected #either #fourth

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. ↗

— Liz Phair

#comes #i #interviewing #just #performance

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#art #been #different #different level #level

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#artist #away #bizarre #break #get

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#art #full #into #joy #kind