Quotes About Art

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

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

Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.

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

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.

Professional wresting is like performance art. It truly is. You're taking the crowd on a ride, on an emotional roller coaster.

I've lost count of how many times I have performed in Chennai.

The Apollo is where all the greats performed.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

I must say that Bengaluru has been one of the best places where I've performed and I would love to associate with the theatre scene here on a personal level.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I don't want to be a bad performer in a good film.

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.