Quotes About Experience

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.

Cu mine se petrece ceva. O via?? de om.

Cum se numea dr?cia aceea frumoas? ?i minunat? ?i nenorocit? ?i caraghioas?, format? de ani, pe care am tr?it-o eu?

Re?in ideea cu paharul. ?i dumneata ai fost un pahar în mâna mea. O cup? de ?ampanie, am spus "noroc" vie?ii, dar n-am apucat s? gust bine, c? am ?i sim?it am?r?ciunea.

Cum am s?rutat prima fat? -asta a fost demult-, n-am sim?it decât un gust de carne. Un gust de mân?. Parc? s?rutasem o mân? în plus. Abia dup? vreo dou? zile m-a apucat o fericire. A?a din senin.

Î?i e?ti ?i drum lung ?i merind? ?i vreme oricât?, oricând. ?i spa?iu cabrând nenoroc. ?i totu-i vibrare pe loc.

It taught me that the process was more important than the result, just as the performance means more to me than the object. I saw the process of making it and then the process of its unmaking. There was no duration or stability to it. It was pure process. Later on I read—and loved—the Yves Klein quote: "My paintings are but the ashes of my art.

Then I woke up and the reality of the dream was stronger than the reality of the day.

Much later on, I read a statement of Bruce Nauman's: "Art is a matter of life and death." It sounds melodramatic, but it's so true. This was exactly how it was for me

Travelling makes a person young because he doesn't get time to get old.

We never rehearse the full time. Yesterday we rehearsed only ten minutes. I don't want him to rehearse 30 minutes [of silence]. Why? Because from my performance experience, I realize that you absolutely have to rely on the energy of the public. If you just sit [in] the empty space for the 30-minute rehearsal, this is pure torture.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like. If you do things you like, you just do the same shit. You always fall in love with the wrong guy. Because there's no change. It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it, go for it. You become a better human being.

I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

You create the space and time in which performance is going to happen. You physically enter. And whatever happens in that frame is the part of the piece that you can't control. If earthquake come, if electricity stop, if somebody scream or have epileptic attack. If people vomit. Everything is a part of it. The only thing is to give yourself completely.

I just want to create situations where people forget time.

When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.

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.

I'd always thought of art as something that was expressed through certain tools: painting, sculpture, photography, writing, film, music, architecture. And yes, performance. But this performance went beyond performance. This was life.

I always thought the more fucked-up childhood you have, the better artist you get, because you have more material to work with. I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative.

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.