In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.

I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

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.

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.