Marina Abramovic Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.”

“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.”

“My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.”

“Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?”

“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.”

“The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.”

“In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.”