Quotes About Art

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

Chennai is such a beautiful place to perform in. The city is lovely, and the people, even more so.

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

I always wanted to perform.

Usually I perform with dancers.

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

I watch a lot of movies, I watch a lot of old movies, I watch a lot of great performances, and I watch a lot of great directors.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.