Peggy Phelan famous quotes

Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.
-- Peggy Phelan

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Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.
-- Peggy Phelan

#Performances #Disappearance

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.
-- Peggy Phelan

#Witty #Art #Assessment

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed

If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.