Artists
The Adelaide Fringe allows any type of artist, national or international, to perform, interact and play with their audiences. In 2012, over 920 performing and visual arts events were staged in over 320 venues across the city. Over 4000 artists registered, undertaking over 6500 individual performances, from 15 minute performances to multi-day events. There were over 1,560,000 attendances to Fringe events/venues across the 24 days of the festival.
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Famous quotes containing the word artists:
“The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“of artists dying in childbirth, wise-women charred at the stake,
centuries of books unwritten piled behind these shelves;
and we still have to stare into the absence
of men who would not, women who could not, speak
to our life—this still unexcavated hole
called civilization, this act of translation, this half-world.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)