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If You're A Woman, It's Almost Impossible To Establish A Relationship. You're Too Much For Everybody. It's Too Much. The Woman Always Has To Play This Role Of Being Fragile And Dependent. And If You're Not, They're Fascinated By You, But Only For A Little While. And Then They Want To Change You And Crush You. And Then They Leave.

I Hate Studio. For Me, Studio Is A Trap To Overproduce And Repeat Yourself. It Is A Habit That Leads To Art Pollution.

With Classical Ballet You Are Literally Injuring Yourself.

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.

You Know How You Feel Somebody Looking At You, And You Turn, And Somebody Actually Is? It's The Same At An Art Gallery. You're Looking At One Portrait, Turn Around, And There Is A Work Of Art Directly Behind You. Because It's All Energy. Every Single Thing Has Energy.