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)

“Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“No performance is worth loss of geniality. ‘Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)