We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
Marina AbramovicI'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.
Marina AbramovicWhen you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.
Marina AbramovicI think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
Marina AbramovicYou know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.
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