“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. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.” WayImportantDifferentHomeHappensHateWaitingSpaceRoomsDestinyHabitI HateTrainDifferent WaysStationsBusMilkRepetitionAirportsTaxiBest PlaceAnything Can HappenWaiting Rooms Author: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.” KnowsArtDifferentEmotionEmotionalInvolvedArt IsDifferent ThingsFabricCommodity Author:Marina Abramovic
“You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.” PeopleKnowsDifferentPerformancesForestsKurosawa Author:Marina Abramovic
“It was incredible, Lady Gaga came to see the piece. She didn't sit with me, but it was all atwitter. Every single kid from 12 to 18 ran to see Lady Gaga and then Lady Gaga left and they stayed. And they stayed another day another day and it created a completely different culture, a different audience that I never had before.” DifferentKidsCultureLeftAudiencePiecesIncrediblesRanAnother DayDifferent CulturesGaga Author:Marina Abramovic
“I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.” GivingI CanDifferentCultureSituationWesternBridgesOther CulturesWestern Culture Author:Marina Abramovic
“I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.” ThinkingWayDifferentPastArtistResponsibilityRoles Author:Marina Abramovic
“When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure your own performance area, you can indulge yourself in different territories. Fashion is one. And ballet is absolutely a fantasy, because it deals with the bodies in a different way.” ThinkingDifferentFantasyFocusFashionBalletIndulge Author: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.” DifferentRealSelfAudienceFrontsOrdinaryReal LifeDifferent Things Author:Marina Abramovic
“To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.” FeelsMindDifferentWholeFeelingsHateFallLove YouFalling In LovePatternsBreathingSpectrum Author:Marina Abramovic
