I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.
Marina AbramovicMy work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.
Marina AbramovicMost artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.
Marina AbramovicWe are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
Marina AbramovicThrough performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.
Marina Abramovic