Marina Abramovic Quotes

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• I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

  Marina Abramovic

  Communication, Thinking, Silence

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• 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

  Artist, Giving, Mind

  "The artist was here". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

  Marina Abramovic

  Real, Blood, Knives

  Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

  Marina Abramovic

  Way, Easy, Never Change

  "Once Upon A Time" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 7, 2012.

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• We are always in the space in-between... all the spaces where you are not actually at home. You haven't arrived yet.... This is where our mind is the most open. We are alert, we are sensitive, and destiny can happen. We do not have any barriers and we are vulnerable. Vulnerability is important. It means we are completely alive and this is an extremely important space. This is for me the space from which my work generates.

  Marina Abramovic

  Home, Mean, Destiny

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• 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.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Bird, Singing

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• Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

  Marina Abramovic

  Loud

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• If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

  Marina Abramovic

  Crush, Women, Play

  "Performance artist Marina Abramović: 'I was ready to die'" By Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.

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• But what is art other than revealing human nature?

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Human Nature, Revealing

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• True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

  Marina Abramovic

  Answers

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• The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.

  Marina Abramovic

  Helping, Finding Strength, I Have Learned

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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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.

  Marina Abramovic

  Ideas, Feels, Obsessive

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• Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

  Marina Abramovic

  Energy, Able, Fields

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• 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.

  Marina Abramovic

  Pain, Thinking, Consciousness

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• The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cutting, Gun, Escaping

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

  Marina Abramovic

  People, Effort, Littles

  "Walking Through Walls" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. March 8, 2010.

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• 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.

  Marina Abramovic

  Past, Thinking, Illusion

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• Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

  Marina Abramovic

  Opposites, People, Familiar

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• 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

  Believe, Important, Stories

  "An Interview with Marina Abramović: Art, Science and the Marina Abramović Institute". Interview with Stephanie Spiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

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• A great artist has to be ready to fail.

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Failing, Great Art

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• 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

  Believe, Creativity, Greatness

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• Art comes from life, not from the studio

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Studios

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• I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Long, Consciousness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Marina Abramovic

  Ideas, Mind, Revolutionary

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• I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Wall, Doe

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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