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.

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.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn.

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.