Marina Abramovic quotes

Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist, widely recognized for her pioneering work in performance art. Her powerful and often intense pieces explore the limits of the body, the mind, and human relationships. She is considered one of the most influential artists of our time and has inspired generations of performers worldwide. Here are 79 of her quotes:

If you can change people's minds - you can change the world.

Marina Abramovic

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.

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.

Marina Abramovic

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,' the pain goes away.

Marina Abramovic

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Marina Abramovic

We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

Marina Abramovic

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

Marina Abramovic

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

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.

Marina Abramovic

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Marina Abramovic

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Marina Abramovic

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

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.

Marina Abramovic

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

Marina Abramovic

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Marina Abramovic

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

Marina Abramovic

The more you think about death and mortality, the more you enjoy life. Because then you do not waste time. You just focus.

Marina Abramovic

Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.

Marina Abramovic

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

Marina Abramovic

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

Marina Abramovic

Cancer is an emotional disease.

Marina Abramovic

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

Marina Abramovic