Marina Abramovic quotes - page 2

When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola. (Marina Abramovic)
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible. View quote
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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. View quote
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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible. View quote
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You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved. View quote
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When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose. View quote
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I want to dominate the man's world. View quote
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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. View quote
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The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is. View quote
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You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language. View quote
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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? (Marina Abramovic)
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing. View quote
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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. View quote
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My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.' View quote
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Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary. View quote
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I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza. View quote
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I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty. View quote
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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. View quote
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I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed. (Marina Abramovic)
An artist should not fall in love with another artist. View quote
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I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of. View quote
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better. View quote
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The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing. View quote
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