In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to. — 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
The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily. — 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… — 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… — 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
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I had three abortions because I was certain that it would be a disaster for my work. — 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
I am thrilled Lady Gaga has helped to teach her audience about long durational work and performance art. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — 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
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
