100+ Performing Arts Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

- Simone Weil

topic: Respect, Art, Spring, Layman, Lack Of Respect

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The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

- David Rubenstein

topic: Art, People, Theatre, Performing Arts

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Life Wisdom

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

- Twyla Tharp

topic: Music, Running, Witty, Creative Artists, Inspiring Art

The way you survive in the performing arts is by having a sense of your audience, and doing things which entertain and satisfy the audience, but in a more important way, cause the audience to question many things.

- Michael Tilson Thomas

source: "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas (Condensed Version)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

topic: Performing Arts

Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.

- Chath Piersath

topic: Art, Creativity, Tools, Performing Arts

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

- Carmen Electra

topic: Art, Attitude, School, Performing Arts

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

- Allen Carr

topic: Art, College, Would Be, Performing Arts

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

- Anthony Anderson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, School, Talent, Performing Arts

My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

- Chloe Grace Moretz

topic: Girl, Art, Brother, Monologues, Performing Arts

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

- Christina Milian

topic: Art, School, Years, Performing Arts

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

- Carly Rae Jepsen

topic: Art, College, Idols, Performing Arts

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

- Karen Kain

topic: Artist, Dancer, Performing, Performing Artist, Performing Arts

In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily basis, and the fact that work never lasts for very long. But you need thin, thin, thin skin in order to access all of your emotions and your creativity so that you can express it. You can't be dead inside. Otherwise you've got nothing to give. So it's a paradox, that we have to exist in both planes in order to do what we do.

- Audra McDonald

source: Source: www.achievement.org

topic: Art, Creativity, Order, Thick Skin, Performing Arts

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

- Ving Rhames

topic: Acting, Performing Arts, English Teacher

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

- Beyonce Knowles

topic: Art, School, Performing, Performing Arts

I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.

- Kelly Stables

source: "The Exes’ Kelly Stables: Giving Her Heart to Faith, Motherhood, and the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Art, Giving, Different, Performing Arts

I think in the end there is one ultimate goal with all my careers, and that is, as a performing artist, you want to explore the deepest, most truthful way to express a point of view, or whatever the character is thinking, or whatever emotion you're trying to convey. I think with the different media it's just about what muscles you use to express that.

- Audra McDonald

topic: Character, Thinking, Artist, Performing Artist, Performing Arts

Posing is a performing art.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Art, Posing, Performing, Performing Arts

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.

- Luciano Pavarotti

topic: Art, Two, Opera, Performing Arts

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.

- Joni Mitchell

topic: Art, Wall, Night, Starry Night, Performing Arts

If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.

- Richard Sammel

topic: Art, Giving, Missing, Give Me Strength, Performing Arts

The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art.

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Art, Inspiration, Differences, Performing Artist, Performing Arts

... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

- Leontyne Price

topic: Art, People, Singing, Egomania, Performing Arts

I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

- Rainey Qualley

source: "Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Prove Mighty Fine". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

topic: Mom, Art, Two, Performing Arts

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

- Audra McDonald

source: Source: www.achievement.org

topic: Art, Real, Fall, Performing Arts

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.

- Lincoln Kirstein

topic: Beautiful, Dance, Integrity, Performing Artist, Performing Arts

Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists.

- Shelly Glover

topic: Art, Government, Support, Performing Arts, British Columbia

At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.

- Jake Gyllenhaal

source: "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

topic: Photography, Art, Class, Performing Arts

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

- Al Pacino

source: Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

topic: Art, School, Levels, Performing Arts, Scholastics

I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea, and that happened to be one of them.

- Jake Gyllenhaal

source: "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

topic: Moving, Writing, Artist, Bodhisattva, Performing Artist

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

- Elizabeth Cotten

topic: Music, Art, Honor, Performing Arts

I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene ...

- Minnie Maddern Fiske

topic: Art, Play, Genius, Receipts, Performing Arts

And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted - but a performance, even if somebody's there with a video camera, is one time only: the audience experiences something that won't exist when the performance is over, and which won't ever be reproduced in exactly the same form. I find that appealing.

- James Arthur

source: "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

topic: Performing Arts, Video Cameras

Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.