“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
“I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.” BelieveImportantStoriesI BelieveAudienceShapesPerformancesPerformersLife Story Author:Marina Abramovic
“I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.” ThinkingImportantLanguageSilenceCommunicationSilence IsEmphasis Author:Marina Abramovic
“It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.” IfsChildrenImportantSometimesMightYoungArtistDangerousMissingBoundariesUrgesImpulsiveFollow ThroughDevelopmentalYoung Artists Author: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.” KnowsImportantLanguageWonderfulModernDevelopmentCreatingModern Dance Author:Marina Abramovic
“We are always in the space in-between... all the spaces where you are not actually at home. You haven't arrived yet.... This is where our mind is the most open. We are alert, we are sensitive, and destiny can happen. We do not have any barriers and we are vulnerable. Vulnerability is important. It means we are completely alive and this is an extremely important space. This is for me the space from which my work generates.” MindMeanImportantHomeHappensSpaceDestinyAliveHavensVulnerableSensitiveVulnerabilityBarriersWhere You Are Author:Marina Abramovic
“We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.” ImportantUsedHouseCleanCleaning Author:Marina Abramovic
“From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.” ThinkingImportantMomentsArtistDiesBorn Author:Marina Abramovic
“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.” KnowsLooksArtSaidImportantSometimesPaintingSingingBird Author:Marina Abramovic
“Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.” KnowsImportantMomentsTodayStarsBlackLosesLinesChanceWonderfulTomorrowHolesWoodyBlack Hole Author: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.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantFeelsKindImportantHelpingBodyStuffTalkingTechnologyCuttingRecognitionPlasticFeel BetterSurgeryLiftingMonstrousPlastic SurgeryHelp Yourself Author:Marina Abramovic
