Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed… — 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
We always think of our own profit, but not in connection to others. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I want to die consciously, without fear, and without anger. Three things. I see my friends dying with fear and anger and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help… — 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
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
When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually… — 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
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