Marina Abramovic Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I don't do husbands. I don't do children.”

“People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.”

“Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.”

“To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.”

“When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'”

“From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.”

“I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.”

“I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.”

“I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.”

“The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.”