Marina Quotes
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.
Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.
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.
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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.
I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.
I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.
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.
Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.
Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.
There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.
Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.
My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.
The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.
No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.
I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.
However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?
I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.
