Marina Abramovic Quotes

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices... -Marina Abramovic

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of you... -Marina Abramovic

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset... -Marina Abramovic

I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.

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This quote expresses the speaker's experience of encountering significant jealousy from others, which causes them considerable distress. It indicates the emotional impact of jealousy and its effect on the speaker's well-being. It reflects the challenges and difficulties associated with navigating jealous feelings and their consequences.

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 cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

People put so much effort into starting a relation... -Marina Abramovic

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.

We always project into the future or reflect in th... -Marina Abramovic

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.

Marina Abramovic Quotes

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