In 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 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 AbramovicBeing an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
Marina AbramovicDocumentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.
Marina AbramovicI'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
Marina AbramovicI hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.
Marina Abramovic