Marina Abramovic Quotes

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Marina Abramovic

Profession : Artist

Birth : November 30, 1946

People in New York never have time for anything.

Marina Abramovic

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

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

Marina Abramovic

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

Marina Abramovic

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

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.

Marina Abramovic

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

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Marina Abramovic

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

Marina Abramovic

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

I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it.

Marina Abramovic

I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.

Marina Abramovic

There's plenty of talented women. Why do men take over the important positions? It's simple. Love, family, children - a woman doesn't want to sacrifice all of that.

Marina Abramovic

I hate studios. A studio is a black hole. I never use a studio to work. It's very artificial to go to a studio to get new ideas. You have to get new ideas from life, not from the studio. Then you go to the studio to realize the idea.

Marina Abramovic

To be in a magazine when you're 20 is okay, but when you do it when you're 65, it's much more fun!

Marina Abramovic

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like.

Marina Abramovic

It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it; go for it. You become a better human being.

Marina Abramovic

I've been criticized by my generation, artists from the '70s - and there's nothing more tragic than artists from the '70s still doing art from the '70s - because I blur all these borders between fashion and pop.

Marina Abramovic

I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.

Marina Abramovic

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

Marina Abramovic