Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all. — 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
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
When I did "Seven Easy Pieces," I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Theatre is fake… The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just… — 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
Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about… — 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
Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end. — 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
When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial… — 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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