Quotes from Marina Abramovic

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.

It was a big base of my performance art ... the idea of here and now ... not something that's happening in the past or the future. It's always happening. It's always now.... Only what matters is the present.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

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.

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.