At the age of 70 all you need is probably a bit more than love, before inviting a theatre audience to pick up scissors and snip off all your clothes.
Yesterday, however, Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, announced her intention of doing just that - in the interest of world peace, which has stubbornly shown no signs of breaking out in all the decades she has shed her clothes for art.
When she encountered Lennon it was a meeting of kindred spirits, which led to the week-long "bed-in" in 1969 when they sat up in bed entertaining the world's press and recording anti-war songs. But their relationship ultimately led to the break up of the Beatles. The pair later posed naked for the cover of their Two Virgins album.
When they met, Ono was already famous, equally mocked and admired as an audacious conceptual artist, poet, and truly terrible singer.
She has been a regular visitor to Britain in recent years. She unveiled a statue of Lennon when Liverpool airport near was named John Lennon International, and she bought his childhood home to save it from developers and presented it to the National Trust. But her theatrical appearance will be in Paris.
On September 15 she will recreate Cut Piece, at the Theatre le Ranelagh, almost 40 years after she first performed it in 1964 in Japan.
As in the original, she will stand on the stage wearing a long white gown, before inviting the audience to cut pieces from it. This time she will invite the members of the audience to cut a piece smaller than a postcard out of her clothing, "wherever you like", and send the scrap of fabric to someone they love.
She was moved to recreate the piece because of the political climate after the September 11 attacks, she said. "Force and intimidation were in the air. People were silenced. Cut Piece is my hope for world peace. When I first performed this work, in 1964, I did it with some anger and turbulence in my heart.
"This time I do it with love for you, for me, and for the world."