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 Copy Share Image
My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
