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Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
There's not any subject the public doesn't know about me. I don't have secrets, and this is so liberating because this makes me free.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marriage material, it's terrible. But my dream is to have those Sunday mornings, where you're eating breakfast and reading newspapers with somebody.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
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.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
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.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible. The more I think about energy, the simpler my art becomes, because it is just about pure presence.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
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.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
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.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
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.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
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.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
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.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
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.
Quote by -Marina Abramovic
The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
Quote by -Marjane Satrapi
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.
Quote by -Marjane Satrapi
Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.
Quote by -Marjane Satrapi
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Quote by -Marjane Satrapi
It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
Quote by -Marjane Satrapi
Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.
Quote by -Marjane Satrapi
It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.
Quote by -Marjane Satrapi
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
Quote by -Marjane Satrapi
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
Quote by -Marjane Satrapi