If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Talking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I had such an intense relationship to every person. I still see people on the street and we lock eyes, and say… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of. — 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
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
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