I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them. Marina Abramovic More Quotes by Marina Abramovic More Quotes From Marina Abramovic Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour. Marina Abramovic behaviourinsaneanswers We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. Marina Abramovic projectslittlespast 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 emotionaldifferentart 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 sacrificebrotherfall 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 healed-youhealingbelieve Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being. Marina Abramovic understanding We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute. Marina Abramovic parallel-livesminutesreality It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions. Marina Abramovic emotionproblemperfect 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 destinyhatehome An artist should not fall in love with another artist. Marina Abramovic falling-in-loveartistfall The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing. Marina Abramovic hardest-thingthings-to-dohardest 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 importantstoriesbelieve 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 sacrificeartistchildren If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves. Marina Abramovic intuitionmagicreal 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 bakersdifferencesartist 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 planetspurposeyoung To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression. Marina Abramovic painexpressionmean I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution. Marina Abramovic habithateart Art comes from life, not from the studio Marina Abramovic studiosart 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 politicalspiritualart
