Marina Abramovic Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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, Understanding, Body

  therumpus.net.

• Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hbo, Mass Culture, Television

  "Marina Abramovic Explains How HBO and Lady Gaga Bring Performance Art to a New Audience". SUNDANCE interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2012.

• It was incredible, Lady Gaga came to see the piece. She didn't sit with me, but it was all atwitter. Every single kid from 12 to 18 ran to see Lady Gaga and then Lady Gaga left and they stayed. And they stayed another day another day and it created a completely different culture, a different audience that I never had before.

  Marina Abramovic

  Kids, Different, Culture

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

  Marina Abramovic

  Bridges, Other Cultures, Giving

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hurt, Western Culture, Needs

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.

  Marina Abramovic

  Pain, Men, Doors

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

• My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to the point where you can really be connected with the fields of energy around you. I think that men and women in our Western culture are completely disconnected from that energy, and in my new work I want to make this connection possible.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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