A great artist has to be ready to fail.

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.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

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

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.