Body Quotes by Marina Abramovic

9 Body quotes by Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic contributes nine statements that treat the body as a performance space and a site of vulnerability. The selection offers a succinct taste of her avant‑garde ethos.

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If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body…

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

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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

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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul…

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You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help…

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The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood…

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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul…

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My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to…

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The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be…

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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…

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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…

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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

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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…

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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.

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My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

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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!

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Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I…

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You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many…

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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…

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If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.

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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…

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