Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so… — 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
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I am thrilled Lady Gaga has helped to teach her audience about long durational work and performance art. — 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
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. — 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
