Marina Abramovic Quotes

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

Television is completely another medium.

We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.

I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.

I want to dominate the man's world.

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