I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.
Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
I want to dominate the man's world.
So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.
Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.
With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.
Cancer is an emotional disease.
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.
To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental exp...
I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it...
We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.
If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
