A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room. Marina Abramovic More Quotes by Marina Abramovic More Quotes From Marina Abramovic I just want to create situations where people forget time. Marina Abramovic want forget people Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite. Marina Abramovic familiar opposites people When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango. Marina Abramovic best-things tango things-to-do Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want! Marina Abramovic artist can-do want I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them. Marina Abramovic way You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. Marina Abramovic portraits energy art To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing. Marina Abramovic falling-in-love hate love-you It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience. Marina Abramovic artist missing children In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea. Marina Abramovic beautiful looks ideas 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 pain mirrors artist First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens. Marina Abramovic giving art firsts My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to the point where you can really be connected with the fields of energy around you. I think that men and women in our Western culture are completely disconnected from that energy, and in my new work I want to make this connection possible. Marina Abramovic men mean thinking 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 renaissance meat body The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing. Marina Abramovic revolutionary mind ideas I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer. Marina Abramovic i-believe life-is-short believe 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 want believe people The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself. Marina Abramovic consciousness way world But what is art other than revealing human nature? Marina Abramovic revealing human-nature art 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 who-i-am girl children You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love to total strangers all the time, and that really changed everything in me. And this piece transformed me more than any other one before. I saw my entire life differently. What do I have to do? What is my passion on this planet? I'm much more focused than I ever was before. Marina Abramovic saws passion giving
