Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so… — 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
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
When I did "Seven Easy Pieces," I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Do you know what's most interesting? Working with the very strong restrictions of the institution. In the Renaissance, the aristocrats would order… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
After my performance 'The Artist is Present (2010)' at MoMA in New York, many scientists became interested in why so many people… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
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
My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries. — 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 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
