Quotes About Art

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

I love performing.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it. As a child, I used to get so excited about performing, I'd get the giggles.

When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.

I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress.

I always loved performing and being on stage.

What we're looking for at my school is intellectuals. People who want to talk about the art and be knowledgeable about it. People who want to know the history. Not everybody needs to be performing.

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

Though all actors do not make good directors, Dhanush is really one of the finest. He knows exactly how to direct an actor to extract the performance the way he wants it. Perhaps that is happening because he is a performer himself.

What I do is create images, period.