From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.
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.
Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
I hate kitchens. I don’t understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
What you get is the opening of your mind. I’m not preaching any new religion; I’m ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level.
I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
Because of technology, we don’t develop telepathy. We don’t use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
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.
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
You can’t choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
It’s okay that we’re not perfect. It’s okay that we all have problems. It’s okay to cry, to show emotions.
We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself – your own house – which we never do.
I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.
I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I’m extremely bored with parties.
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.
We always want to do things the way we like, that’s why we never change.