Marina Abramovic Quotes
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Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.
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Americans don't like European movies.
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Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
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The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.
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To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
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I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.
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Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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I don't do husbands. I don't do children.
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I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
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It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
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The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
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You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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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 something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.
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For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
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I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
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I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it.
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One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.