Tim Crouch Quotes

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.

Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

Traditional conceptual art is very dry.

It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.