In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a… — 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… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life… — 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… — 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
You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with… — 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
“Much later on, I read a statement of Bruce Nauman's: “Art is a matter of life and death.” It sounds melodramatic, but… — Marina Abramović Copy Share Image
People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're… — 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
When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down. Don't take pills that keep… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love… — 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
