Marina Abramovic quotes

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. (Marina Abramovic)
If you can change people's minds - you can change the world. View quote
Marina Abramovic
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. View quote
Marina Abramovic
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, "Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look. View quote
Marina Abramovic
When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,' the pain goes away. View quote
Marina Abramovic
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. View quote
Marina Abramovic
We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute. View quote
Marina Abramovic
If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference. View quote
Marina Abramovic
When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.' View quote
Marina Abramovic
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. View quote
Marina Abramovic
It's just you and me. It is the eyes and look. This is true communion. This is more significant. (Marina Abramovic)
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. View quote
Marina Abramovic
The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing. View quote
Marina Abramovic
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. View quote
Marina Abramovic
I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer. View quote
Marina Abramovic
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one. View quote
Marina Abramovic
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being. View quote
Marina Abramovic
People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of. View quote
Marina Abramovic
The more you think about death and mortality, the more you enjoy life. Because then you do not waste time. You just focus. View quote
Marina Abramovic
Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do. View quote
Marina Abramovic
The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you. (Marina Abramovic)
With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself. View quote
Marina Abramovic
We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty. View quote
Marina Abramovic
Cancer is an emotional disease. View quote
Marina Abramovic
I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet. View quote
Marina Abramovic