Marina Abramovic Quotes - Page 4

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• Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

  Marina Abramovic

  Talking, Matter, Strange

  "Marina Abramovic Makes Sundance Shut Up". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Do you know what's most interesting? Working with the very strong restrictions of the institution. In the Renaissance, the aristocrats would order paintings from the artist. They would order the Crucifixion of Jesus. The restrictions were amazing. Jesus had to be in the middle, three apostles on the left, four apostles on the right - and still you had masterpieces. It's really interesting to work within restriction, and see what you can do with restriction.

  Marina Abramovic

  Jesus, Strong, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

  Marina Abramovic

  Bridges, Play, People

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

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• We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mistake, Choices, Terrible

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• You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

  Marina Abramovic

  Funeral

  "AP Interview: Being Marina Abramovic, Serbia-born performance artist relaxes iron self-control". www.foxnews.com. October 06, 2012.

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• 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

  Mother, Sleep, Thinking

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• I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cutting, Blood, Way

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• I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

  Marina Abramovic

  Theater, Wilson, Performances

  FaceBook post by Marina Abramovic from Dec 12, 2013

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• For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.

  Marina Abramovic

  Pieces, Difficult

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

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Looks, Can Do

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• What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level.

  Marina Abramovic

  Lying, Water, Everyday

  "Marina Abramović Saves the World" by Kimberly Cutter, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 10, 2013.

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• 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

  Stars, Black, Important

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• In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

  Marina Abramovic

  Real, Self, Ordinary

  "Conversation: Marina Abramovic". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 8, 2011.

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• 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.

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• I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Book, Long

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• 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

  Cutting, Feel Better, Technology

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• There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't care if people think I'm overexposed. What I care about is if I'm going to run out of energy. Overexposure is only a problem if you are drained of energy and cannot come up with new ideas. Every artist has to recognize that and know when to stop for a moment.

  Marina Abramovic

  Running, Art, Thinking

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• In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

  Marina Abramovic

  Want

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• Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

  Marina Abramovic

  Technology, Phones, Use

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 8, 2011.

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• You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

  Marina Abramovic

  Interesting, Borders, Break

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• 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

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• There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Artist, Tragic

  "Performance artist Marina "Abramović: 'I was ready to die'" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2014.

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

  Marina Abramovic

  Feminist, Categories, Clear

  "Meltdown 2012 - Marina Abramovic: 'Artists can do whatever they want'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2012.

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• 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

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• You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

  Marina Abramovic

  Country, Village, India

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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