Folk Art Performance

Famous quotes containing the words folk, art and/or performance:

“The ties between gentle folk are as pure as water; the links between scoundrels are as thick as honey.”
—Chinese proverb.

“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential—the imagination.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)

“Kind are her answers,
But her performance keeps no day;
Breaks time, as dancers,
From their own music when they stray.”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)