I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.