There’s not any subject the public doesn’t know about me. I don’t have secrets, and this is so liberating because this makes me free. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
I prepare a lot. For ‘The Artist Is Present,’ it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
If I’m not nervous, I’m nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
I change so many houses and places where I live; I change them like I change socks. I don’t have this absolute, kind of, how you say, attachment. My brother, if he just has to go to holiday to sleep in different bed, for him it is a disaster. I can sleep under this table or in a five-star hotel; I don’t care. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty. Marina Abramovic Read Quote
