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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.

— Marina Abramovic death

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.

— Marina Abramovic thought

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.'

— Marina Abramovic life

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.

— Marina Abramovic people

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

— Marina Abramovic art

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.

— Marina Abramovic war

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.

— Marina Abramovic love

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

— Marina Abramovic art

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

— Marina Abramovic future

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.

— Marina Abramovic self

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

— Marina Abramovic soul

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

— Marina Abramovic life

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.

— Marina Abramovic men

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.

— Marina Abramovic words

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.

— Marina Abramovic marriage

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.'

— Marina Abramovic love

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.

— Marina Abramovic religion

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

— Marina Abramovic self

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

— Marina Abramovic ideas

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

— Marina Abramovic love

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 inspiration

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

— Marina Abramovic men

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.

— Marina Abramovic art

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

— Marina Abramovic nature

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

— Marina Abramovic art

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