Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera." He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.

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.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.