Marina Abramovic Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.”

“Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.”

“We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.”

“Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.”

“I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'”

“When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.”

“People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.”

“I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed.”

“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.”

“For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.”