Marina Abramovic Quotes

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Marina Abramovic

Profession : Artist

Birth : November 30, 1946

Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhelming and fulfilling.

Marina Abramovic

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

Marina Abramovic

I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed.

Marina Abramovic

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

Cancer is an emotional disease.

Marina Abramovic

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Marina Abramovic

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.

Marina Abramovic

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

Marina Abramovic

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.

Marina Abramovic

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

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

Artists can do whatever they want!

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.

Marina Abramovic

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.

Marina Abramovic

Yes, 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.

Marina Abramovic

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

Marina Abramovic

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.

Marina Abramovic

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.

Marina Abramovic

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

Marina Abramovic

Good art is never made in studio. Good art I make in life.

Marina Abramovic