"Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity."
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Quotes by Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovi?, born on November 30, 1946, in Belgrade, Serbia, is a pioneering performance artist celebrated for her boundary-pushing works that explore the intersection of art, endurance, and the human experience. Often dubbed the "grandmother of performance art," Abramovi?'s career spans over five decades, during which she has challenged perceptions of identity, presence, and the relationship between artist and audience. Her groundbreaking piece, "The Artist is Present," exemplifies her commitment to vulnerability and connection, solidifying her legacy as a transformative figure in contemporary art.
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"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
"People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one."
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. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'"
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
"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."
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."
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."
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."
Marina Abramovic