To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.
The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That’s the only way to rebuild yourself.
In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don’t want to.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
But what is art other than revealing human nature?
I notice if I’m too fat or if I’m too ugly or there’s skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.
The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I’m fighting for.
I want to dominate the man’s world.
Immaterial art is the strongest because there’s no obstacle; there’s just energy, and I believe in energy.
I don’t know anything about the afterlife because I haven’t been there yet.
There’s nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
When you’re 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.
In the performer’s body, you don’t care how you look. It doesn’t matter if you’re old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn’t change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea.
I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it’s so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can’t see it. You can’t touch it. You just can feel it.
The world doesn’t need an artist who shows reality as it is.