I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

To allow your life varnish into vanity without reproducing it would mean to live a wasted life.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

I count him lost who is lost to shame.

When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.