Only Quotes by Marina Abramovic

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

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

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

— 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 immaterial and…

— Marina Abramovic

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

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

— Marina Abramovic

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

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

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

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

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

— Marina Abramovic

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

Art comes from life, not from the studio

— Marina Abramovic

All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind…

— Marina Abramovic

It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it; go for it. You…

— Marina Abramovic