In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be… — 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 you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to… — 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
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
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
