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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

— Jack Bowman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

— Robert Ludlum

You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.

— Liev Schreiber

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

— Stephen Sondheim

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.

— Reggie Watts

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

— Yoko Ono

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

— Maggie Smith

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

— Adam Lambert

✗Opposing Perspectives

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

— Terry Teachout

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

— Amanda Palmer

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

— Thornton Wilder