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Marina Abramović is a Serbian artist renowned for her performance art. Her work often involves exploring the limits of the body, challenging the boundaries between the artist and the audience.

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Famous Marina Abramovic Quotes

“There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.”

Art Stills Artist Tragic

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.”

Doe Art Wall Realising Gallery

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.”

Believe Art Energy I Believe Art Is Obstacles I Believe In Strongest

Author:Marina Abramovic

“There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't care if people think I'm overexposed. What I care about is if I'm going to run out of energy. Overexposure is only a problem if you are drained of energy and cannot come up with new ideas. Every artist has to recognize that and know when to stop for a moment.”

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Author: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.”

Knows Giving Firsts Art Happens Percent Performances Performance Art Give 100 Percent

Author:Marina Abramovic

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

Art Fighting Performances Mainstream

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“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.”

Knows Art Different Emotion Emotional Involved Art Is Different Things Fabric Commodity

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.”

Thinking Way Needs Art Bigs Lost Perfect Cities Car Ten Bridges

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“If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.”

Ifs Art Our Society Oxygen

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“I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.”

Long Art Consciousness Art Is

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“Art comes from life, not from the studio”

Art Studios

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“But what is art other than revealing human nature?”

Humans Art Human Nature Revealing

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“Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.”

Knows Looks Art Said Important Sometimes Painting Singing Bird

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.”

Art Hate Habit I Hate Studios Repeats Pollution Traps

Author: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.”

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Author:Marina Abramovic

“I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.”

Ifs Art Spiritual Political Social Forget Leader Elements Layers Forget It Therapists Therapeutic Spiritual Leader

Author:Marina Abramovic

“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.”

Knows Feels Art Turns Energy Behinds Know How Works Of Art Portraits Gallery Behind You How You Feel Art Galleries

Author:Marina Abramovic

About the Author

Born: November 30, 1946
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 162

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