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Laurie Anderson

"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."

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"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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Amber Hurdle

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."
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"I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it."
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"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
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"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"
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"People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for."
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"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."
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"As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true."
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"People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret."
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"I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA."
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