In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
Marina AbramovicWe always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
Marina AbramovicIn real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
Marina AbramovicPeople put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
Marina AbramovicWhen I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
Marina Abramovic