The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.

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.