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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
— Marina Abramovic
I want to dominate the man's world.
— Marina Abramovic
It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.
— Marina Abramovic
One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.
— Marina Abramovic
I don't do husbands. I don't do children.
— Marina Abramovic
I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
— Marina Abramovic
When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'
— Marina Abramovic
An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
— Marina Abramovic
People in New York never have time for anything.
— Marina Abramovic
People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
— Marina Abramovic
True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.
— Marina Abramovic
Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
— Marina Abramovic
In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
— Marina Abramovic
I just want to create situations where people forget time.
— Marina Abramovic
If we go for the easy way, then we never change
— Marina Abramovic
In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
— Marina Abramovic
For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
— Marina Abramovic
Art comes from life, not from the studio
— Marina Abramovic
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
— Marina Abramovic
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
— Marina Abramovic
Cancer is an emotional disease.
— Marina Abramovic
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
— Marina Abramovic
We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
— Marina Abramovic
We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
— Marina Abramovic
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
— Marina Abramovic
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
— Marina Abramovic
Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud
— Marina Abramovic
What you're doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance
— Marina Abramovic
With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
— Marina Abramovic
Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
— Marina Abramovic
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
— Marina Abramovic
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
— Marina Abramovic
It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You're so innocent in the beginning; you don't know.
— Marina Abramovic
We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
— Marina Abramovic
I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.
— Marina Abramovic
When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.
— Marina Abramovic
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
— Marina Abramovic
You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
— Marina Abramovic
Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
— Marina Abramovic
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
— Marina Abramovic
The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
— Marina Abramovic
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
— Marina Abramovic
For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
— Marina Abramovic
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
— Marina Abramovic
We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.
— Marina Abramovic
In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.
— Marina Abramovic
Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.
— Marina Abramovic
I think 21st century should be art without objects.
— Marina Abramovic
The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.
— Marina Abramovic
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
— Marina Abramovic
Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.
— Marina Abramovic
I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
— Marina Abramovic
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
— Marina Abramovic
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
— Marina Abramovic
The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.
— Marina Abramovic
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
— Marina Abramovic
Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.
— Marina Abramovic
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
— Marina Abramovic
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
— Marina Abramovic
The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
— Marina Abramovic
You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
— Marina Abramovic
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.
— Marina Abramovic
All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
— Marina Abramovic
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
— Marina Abramovic
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
— Marina Abramovic
I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.
— Marina Abramovic
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
— Marina Abramovic
So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.
— Marina Abramovic
But what is art other than revealing human nature?
— Marina Abramovic
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.
— Marina Abramovic
The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
— Marina Abramovic
The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.
— Marina Abramovic
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
— Marina Abramovic
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.
— Marina Abramovic
When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
— Marina Abramovic
A great artist has to be ready to fail.
— Marina Abramovic
Americans don't like European movies.
— Marina Abramovic
To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
— Marina Abramovic
If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.
— Marina Abramovic
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.
— Marina Abramovic
Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
— Marina Abramovic
I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it.
— Marina Abramovic
A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.
— Marina Abramovic
Artists can do whatever they want!
— Marina Abramovic
Some couples buy pots and pans when they move in together. Ulay and I began planning how to make art together.
— Marina Abramovic
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.
— Marina Abramovic
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
— Marina Abramovic
I'm interested in asking: 'What does feminine energy mean?' I don't have answers - I just have questions and interesting examples.
— Marina Abramovic
I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
— Marina Abramovic
I believe the artist has an obligation to society.
— Marina Abramovic