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I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with members of the Pijantjatjara and Pintupi tribes in Australia was a transformative experience for me and one that has deeply and indelibly informed my entire life and art.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

Marina Abramovic

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

Marina Abramovic

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

Marina Abramovic

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

Marina Abramovic

I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with members of the Pijantjatjara and Pintupi tribes in Australia was a transformative experience for me and one that has deeply and indelibly informed my entire life and art.

Marina Abramovic

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.

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

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Marina Abramovic

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

Marina Abramovic

There's plenty of talented women. Why do men take over the important positions? It's simple. Love, family, children - a woman doesn't want to sacrifice all of that.

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

I'm interested in asking: 'What does feminine energy mean?' I don't have answers - I just have questions and interesting examples.

Marina Abramovic

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

Marina Abramovic

I want to dominate the man's world.

Marina Abramovic

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

Marina Abramovic

I am plenty lonely in hotel rooms.

Marina Abramovic

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

Marina Abramovic

I don't do husbands. I don't do children.

Marina Abramovic

Yes, 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

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

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.

Marina Abramovic

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

Marina Abramovic

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

Marina Abramovic

I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it.

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

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

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

Marina Abramovic

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

Marina Abramovic

Cancer is an emotional disease.

Marina Abramovic

I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

Marina Abramovic

People in New York never have time for anything.

Marina Abramovic

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

Marina Abramovic

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

Marina Abramovic

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

Marina Abramovic

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'

Marina Abramovic

The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.

Marina Abramovic