From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better. — 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
If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present… — 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
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
If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that… — 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… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The only time I really feel tired and old is when I look back; I always like to look just in the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
After my performance 'The Artist is Present (2010)' at MoMA in New York, many scientists became interested in why so many people… — 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 have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with members of the Pijantjatjara… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I grew up with my grandmother because my parents were making careers and didn't have much time for me. She was a… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to… — 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
