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
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.” — Marina Abramović 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
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
Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work. — 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
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
