I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the… — 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
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
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
All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself. — 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
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul… — 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 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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