Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want! — 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
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better. — 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
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
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
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
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
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art… — 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 am thrilled Lady Gaga has helped to teach her audience about long durational work and performance art. — 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
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression. — 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
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy. — 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
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. — 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
So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable. — 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 we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen. — 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 Image
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 Image
In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to. — 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 immaterial and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
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 Image
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
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 Image
