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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.
I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.
From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like.
Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.
I had three abortions because I was certain that it would be a disaster for my work.
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.
Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.
To be in a magazine when you're 20 is okay, but when you do it when you're 65, it's much more fun!
Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.
I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
I am thrilled Lady Gaga has helped to teach her audience about long durational work and performance art.
I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.
It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.
You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.
Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhelming and fulfilling.
Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'
Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.
I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it.
When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.