Marina Abramovic Quotes - Page 2

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• Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

  Marina Abramovic

  Understanding

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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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• To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

  Marina Abramovic

  Pain, Mean, Expression

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• The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hardest, Things To Do, Hardest Thing

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• I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hate, Home, Destiny

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

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• An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

  Marina Abramovic

  Falling In Love, Fall, Artist

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• I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

  Marina Abramovic

  Believe, People, Want

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

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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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• I just want to create situations where people forget time.

  Marina Abramovic

  People, Want, Forget

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

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• The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.

  Marina Abramovic

  Believe, Healing, Healed You

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

  Marina Abramovic

  Wall, Stranger, Conversation

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• If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Differences, Bakers

  "MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ MAKES SUNDANCE SHUT UP". DEENAH VOLLMER, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

  Marina Abramovic

  Insane, Behaviour, Answers

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

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• We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

  Marina Abramovic

  Reality, Minutes, Parallel Lives

  "Marina Abramovic Talks 'The Artist is Present,' Her Thoughts On Censorship, Art & More". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. June 15, 2012.

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• You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Emotional, Different

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• Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Want, Can Do

  "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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• We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

  Marina Abramovic

  Past, Littles, Projects

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• We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.

  Marina Abramovic

  Want, Way, Never Change

  "The Audience is Present". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2015.

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• I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.

  Marina Abramovic

  Way

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

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• I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

  Marina Abramovic

  Children, Sacrifice, Artist

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• I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

  Marina Abramovic

  Purpose, Planets, Young

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

  Marina Abramovic

  World, Way, Consciousness

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• I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.

  Marina Abramovic

  Spiritual, Art, Political

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• The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

  Marina Abramovic

  Brother, Fall, Sacrifice

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

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