Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.” — Marina Abramović Copy Share Image
I am thrilled Lady Gaga has helped to teach her audience about long durational work and performance art. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want! — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I've been criticized by my generation, artists from the '70s - and there's nothing more tragic than artists from the '70s still… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with members of the Pijantjatjara… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Much later on, I read a statement of Bruce Nauman's: “Art is a matter of life and death.” It sounds melodramatic, but… — Marina Abramović Copy Share Image
I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
I hate studios. A studio is a black hole. I never use a studio to work. It's very artificial to go to a studio… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
To be in a magazine when you're 20 is okay, but when you do it when you're 65, it's much more fun! — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
I didn't give any instruction to the video, because it was a new medium. I didn't know what to tell him; it was so… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it; go for it. You… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share
