I Am Pure Performance, And Robert Wilson

If We Consider Art As Oxygen In Our Society, We Have To Deliver This Oxygen.

I Don't Know Anything About The Afterlife Because I Haven't Been There Yet.

The Brother Of My Grandfather Was The Patriarch Of The Orthodox Church And Revered As A Saint. So Everything In My Childhood Is About Total Sacrifice, Whether To Religion Or To Communism. This Is What Is Engraved On Me. This Is Why I Have This Insane Willpower. My Body Is Now Beginning To Be Falling Apart, But I Will Do It To The End. I Don't Care. With Me It Is About Whatever It Takes.

Do You Know What's Most Interesting? Working With The Very Strong Restrictions Of The Institution. In The Renaissance, The Aristocrats Would Order Paintings From The Artist. They Would Order The Crucifixion Of Jesus. The Restrictions Were Amazing. Jesus Had To Be In The Middle, Three Apostles On The Left, Four Apostles On The Right - And Still You Had Masterpieces. It's Really Interesting To Work Within Restriction, And See What You Can Do With Restriction.

To 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 Just By Changing Your Breathing.