First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
From Marina Abramovic
When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'
The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.
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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