We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
Marina AbramovicThere's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
Marina AbramovicThe 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.
Marina AbramovicFirst of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Marina AbramovicI made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.
Marina AbramovicIt was incredible, Lady Gaga came to see the piece. She didn't sit with me, but it was all atwitter. Every single kid from 12 to 18 ran to see Lady Gaga and then Lady Gaga left and they stayed. And they stayed another day another day and it created a completely different culture, a different audience that I never had before.
Marina Abramovic