76 Marina Abramovic Quotes for You to Enjoy

Marina Abramovic

Serbian Artist

Born: Nov 30, 1946

Art Life Me People Work You

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I grew up with my grandmother because my parents were making careers and didn't have much time for me. She was a highly religious Serbian Orthodox, spending most of her time in church. It's a great mix, and I use all these elements in my work. Marina Abramovic

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The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is. Marina Abramovic

Reality World Artist Who Shows Need

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate. Marina Abramovic

You Hate Something Performance Artist Theater

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues. Marina Abramovic

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art. Marina Abramovic

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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

You Technology Phones Develop Know Because Mobile Mobile Phones Use Why

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.' Marina Abramovic

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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.' Marina Abramovic

Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time. Marina Abramovic

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real. Marina Abramovic

Everything Performance Real Blood Theater Ketchup

I believe the artist has an obligation to society. Marina Abramovic

Obligation Believe Society Artist

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure. Marina Abramovic

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