Marina Abramovic quote: "The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind."

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?&...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year wit...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven pr...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow m...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, yo...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it&...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I want to dominate the man's world.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman....
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other i...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the livin...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memo...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic,...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the nigh...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to ex...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same p...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and s...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with w...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
MARINA TSVETAEVA

I had difficult mother, difficult childhood like she had. She is Sagittarius like I am. I almost die...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
MARINA SIRTIS

Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marria...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhe...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
MARINA WARNER

One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance art...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.
MARINA ABROMOVIC

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with me...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted mas...
MARINA FIORATO

Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping. 
In the cradle a child is screaming. 
An old ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
MARINA TSVETAEVA

It is remarkable that a fist-gnawingly dire England performance still has the power to shock, when i...
MARINA HYDE

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division bet...
MARINA WARNER

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
MARINA WARNER

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.
MARINA AMOROSO

This is a natural extension of location services we've seen serving the business market to track wor...
MARINA AMOROSO

There's really not a great understanding right now about what appeals to parents and kids. It's a ma...
MARINA AMOROSO

The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approa...
MARINA AMOROSO

These Are The Voyages...
MARINA SIRTIS

When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing fairies.
MARINA GALLAGHER

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it...
MARINA LEWYCKA

With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak.
MARINA SIMCOE

I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and...
MARINA WARNER

All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not thi...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek charac...
MARINA SIRTIS

They should've done a two-hour, you know, like we did. Then I would've gotten double the money, that...
MARINA SIRTIS

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmes...
MARINA WARNER

A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not...
MARINA WARNER

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
MARINA OSWALD

Самый необитаемый из всех островов - толпа.
MARINA DYACHENKO

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.
MARINA ABRAMOVIć

I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show wh...
MARINA SIRTIS

Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything...
And I cry...
MARINA KEEGAN

I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .
MARINA KEEGAN

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start ove...
MARINA KEEGAN

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out ...
MARINA WARNER

Quinn had never stayed at a hotel that used real keys. Most had plastic keycards--like credit cards ...
MARINA COHEN

We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this senti...
MARINA KEEGAN

We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I wa...
MARINA KEEGAN

I was raised to believe that all I could ever be was a criminal. It made me want to be anything but ...
MARINA SIMCOE

I like to work with people. I enjoy my job. I really enjoy it.
MARINA ROMERO

We're here to help the Spanish community because sometimes our people feel more comfortable being se...
MARINA ROMERO

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my p...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

We rely on people coming out and being patrons to help this site continue to thrive.
MARINA TORTORELLO

It's something people don't see normally. To see people dressed up in that time period and using the...
MARINA TORTORELLO

Living conditions were good in this area.
MARINA TORTORELLO

We wanted to give people an idea of what it was like living in that time.
MARINA TORTORELLO

Apparently I'm the 'eye-candy' of TNG, which at my age I find quite a compliment.
MARINA SIRTIS

No amount of justice could bring them back or replace the emptiness I feel, but I'm glad he's off th...
MARINA DANIELS

The lives that Gertrude has touched would fill this whole hospital. She'd give you her heart from he...
MARINA DANIELS

She would call me every day on her way to work. Yesterday I was waiting for her to call and it never...
MARINA DANIELS

She would go to McDonald's and give it out to homeless people.
MARINA DANIELS

I would just like for him to go to court. I don't have any bitterness against him.
MARINA DANIELS

It's really annoying when you have (people) butting in line when everyone's waiting for an hour and ...
MARINA BARTUREN

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.
MARINA OSWALD

There are still some perceptions that attendees would do nothing but play while they are here. It's ...
MARINA NICOLA

We had the economy. We had the Iraqi war. We had SARS. Those things took a huge chunk out of the num...
MARINA NICOLA

It makes sense to practice moving around gracefully in it.
MARINA LITTERSCHEIDT

What I wish for him in my thoughts is that he would preserve his health, I think that's the most imp...
MARINA KHODORKOVSKY

If they allow to see him and bring him (food) only six times a year, then there is no sense to li...
MARINA KHODORKOVSKY

Redondo is always, no matter what, out to have a good time. That's what surfing is supposed to be al...
MARINA RICHARDSON

Every time there is a humanitarian catastrophe, you hear the same promise: There will be a seamless ...
MARINA OTTAWAY

You need to convince the international community that there is a looming crisis before there are pic...
MARINA OTTAWAY

What I expect to happen is that the US will be very cautious in pushing for elections as soon as pos...
MARINA OTTAWAY

Much more common and insidious in the contemporary world is a situation where central authority has ...
MARINA OTTAWAY

In Iraq, that's not what we find.
MARINA OTTAWAY

One can date the beginning of a civil war only in retrospect. But when we see deliberate attacks on ...
MARINA OTTAWAY

He's being as forceful as he can be, given the circumstances.
MARINA OTTAWAY

I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.
MARINA KEEGAN

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Sold my soul and yeah, the truth hurts.
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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that...
MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my p...
MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA

Sólo mediante la información que poseemos, incorporada a nuestro organismo, sean los esquemas inna...
JOSé ANTONIO MARINA

To Graduate from the "School of Life" you need to have met the following criteria: Found your life p...
MARINA G. ROUSSOU

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another al...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol station...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of s...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

My friend Oscar is one of those princes without kingdom who wander around hoping you'll kiss them so...
-MARINA ; CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

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The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

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