Quotes About Performance

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.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

My art became very public.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

Teaching is performance art.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

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.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.