Jack Bowman Writer Quotations

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

Performance Art is brief, about 15 minutes long. This is a problem in that you cannot get people to come out to watch a 15-minute performance.

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

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

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.