You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the ...
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time.
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.
People in New York never have time for anything.
The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field...
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
