Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.
Marina AbramovicImmaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
Marina AbramovicOnce you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
Marina AbramovicI say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.
Marina AbramovicZooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera." He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.
Marina Abramovic