From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don’t like. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
I’ve been criticized by my generation, artists from the ’70s – and there’s nothing more tragic than artists from the ’70s still doing art from the ’70s – because I blur all these borders between fashion and pop. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it’s all the same to me. I am very communist in this way. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn’t pay electricity. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
I don’t think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn’t need to be creative. You’re not creative from happiness, you’re just happy. You’re creative when you’re miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
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. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
The only time I really feel tired and old is when I look back; I always like to look just in the front of me. I’ll always feel like I didn’t finish enough, such a short time is left, and there’s still so much to do. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
