Quotes About Art

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it's like to create yourself.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

My experience of being a singer and performer is there is something meditative and very positive about singing, just resonating the inside of your body.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

I feel an actor is an entertainer first then a performer.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's problems, because they're always going to be there. They were there since the beginning, and they're going to be there until the end.

You need actors and performers, but there has to be content in a film.

I wanted to break the idea of what male performers are supposed to show, what performances girl groups are supposed to show. I really wanted to break those labels, showing that dance is a form of art.

I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business.

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

Performing is my passion.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I really like performing for people.

You should not think of business while performing your art. This advice holds true for every artiste, irrespective of what he is doing.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.