One Thing I Learned From His Holiness

We Are Always In The Space In-between... All The Spaces Where You Are Not Actually At Home. You Haven't Arrived Yet.... This Is Where Our Mind Is The Most Open. We Are Alert, We Are Sensitive, And Destiny Can Happen. We Do Not Have Any Barriers And We Are Vulnerable. Vulnerability Is Important. It Means We Are Completely Alive And This Is An Extremely Important Space. This Is For Me The Space From Which My Work Generates.

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.

When I Was Young, I Couldn't Think About Ballet Because I Had To Focus On My Own Field. But Once You Secure Your Own Performance Area, You Can Indulge Yourself In Different Territories. Fashion Is One. And Ballet Is Absolutely A Fantasy, Because It Deals With The Bodies In A Different Way.

Western Culture Has More Need Because They're So Much More Degenerated. They're So Much More Hurt, And Misbalanced Completely.

To Me The Pain And The Blood Are Merely Means Of Artistic Expression.