Marina Abramovic Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.”

“You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.”

“You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.”

“I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.”

“A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.”

“Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.”

“Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.”

“Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.”

“I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.”

“I think 21st century should be art without objects.”