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“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.”

Wells Long School Artist Process Media Dog Creation Painting Photography Performances Cameras Backgrounds Setting Video Settings Collaboration Fascinated Sixty Installation

Author:William Wegman

“Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.”

Ifs Way Feels I Can Done Artist Perfect Emotion Painting Performances

Author:Jimmy Page

“The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.”

Painting Performances Instant Sand Monk Ephemeral Live Performance

Book:Composed: A Memoir

Source: Composed: A Memoir

“Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.”

Ifs Art Reality Successful Painting Tasks Performances Questioning Affirmation Dexterity

Book:PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983

Source: PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983

“One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.”

World Reason Wanted Actors Deals Stage Painting Goes On Musician Performances Bigger Moved Productions Around The World

Author:Jared Leto

“In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.”

Giving Mind Children Feelings Mother Asks Fantasy Feet Painting Creatures Models Ideals Performances Myth Breasts Fulfilled Nurture Tranquil Being A Mother Unattainable Raphael

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.”

People Way Writing Done Able Moving Fun Lines Painting Machines Performances Dance Performance

Author:Jose Parla

“I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.”

Thinking Way Needs Should Art Ideas Play Artist Break Painting Pure Art Is Performances Breaking Down Sculpture Advise Pretension

Author:Wayne White

“Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.”

Painting Performances Piano Rice

Author:Evgeni Kostitsyn

“I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.”

Firsts Art Made School Painting Summer Performances Oil Bows Awakened Institute Michigan Oil Painting

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.”

Two Seems Past Media Particular Painting Photography Performances Leaving Decades Boundaries Mediums Sculpture Over The Past

Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

“Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.”

Ifs Way Kind Painting Performances Studios Theatrical

Author:Peter Schjeldahl