Artist Quotes by Marina Abramovic

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

— Marina Abramovic

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

— Marina Abramovic

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

— Marina Abramovic

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

— Marina Abramovic

Good art is never made in studio. Good art I make in life.

— Marina Abramovic

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

— Marina Abramovic

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

— Marina Abramovic

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

— Marina Abramovic

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

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

— 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

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

— Marina Abramovic

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

— Marina Abramovic

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

— Marina Abramovic

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

— Marina Abramovic

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

— Marina Abramovic

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

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

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

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

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

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social…

— Marina Abramovic

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but…

— Marina Abramovic

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

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of…

— Marina Abramovic

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

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

After my performance 'The Artist is Present (2010)' at MoMA in New York, many scientists became interested in why so many people…

— Marina Abramovic

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

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

— Marina Abramovic

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

— Marina Abramovic

Art comes from life, not from the studio

— Marina Abramovic

I'm not feminist, by the way. I am just an artist.

— Marina Abramovic

Artists can do whatever they want!

— Marina Abramovic

I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.

— Marina Abramovic

“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.”

— Marina Abramović

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

— Marina Abramovic

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.

— Marina Abramovic

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

— Marina Abramovic

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's…

— Marina Abramovic