Folk Art Performance

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

    “I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    “For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
    Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)