Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
Interpretation
Artists are encouraged to break norms and explore new ideas.
This quote by Marina Abramovic emphasizes the freedom that artists have to express themselves in unconventional ways. It suggests that embracing the strange and different can lead to unique and authentic creations, encouraging individuals to step outside their comfort zones and explore creativity without limitations.
In practice
During an art workshop, I urged participants to embrace their inner artist and remember, 'Why not do something strange and different for once?'
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
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.
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
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.
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.
I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.
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