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âOnce, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, âDo you ever know what the birds are singing? You donât. But you listen to them anyway.â So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.â
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âThe hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.â
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âWhat youâre doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performanceâ
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âIt is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. Youâre so innocent in the beginning; you donât know.â
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âIf youâre a woman, itâs almost impossible to establish a relationship. Youâre too much for everybody. Itâs too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if youâre not, theyâare fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave. So, lots of lonely hotel rooms, my dear.â
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âIf you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where youâve never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know youâre going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important.
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âTo control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.â
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âWhen I was young it was impossible for me to talk to people. Now I can stand in front of three thousand people without any notes, any preconception of what Iâm going to say, even without visual material, and I can look at everyone in the audience and talk for two hours easily. What happened? Art happened.â
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âSome couples buy pots and pans when they move in together. Ulay and I began planning how to make art together.â
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âHuman beings are afraid of very simple things: we fear suffering, we fear mortality. What I was doing in Rhythm 0âas in all my other performancesâwas staging these fears for the audience: using their energy to push my body as far as possible. In the process, I liberated myself from my fears. And as this happened, I became a mirror for the audienceâif I could do it, they could do it, too.â
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âSometimes people are ashamed to talk about these things, but I know so many people who would never throw away their old shitty T-shirts or pullovers that are falling apart because of the comfort they get from those clothes. Everybody is vulnerable.â
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âThen I woke up and the reality of the dream was stronger than the reality of the day.â
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â... you can tell the most terrible truths if you first open the human heart with humor.â
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âI realized that this is the theme I return to constantly - I'm always trying to prove to everyone that I can go it alone, that I can survive, that I don't need anybody.â
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