Marina Abramovic : (13)

" I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, ‘God, she loved life so much.’ " - Marina Abramovic

" To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake… The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real. " - Marina Abramovic

" The world doesn’t need an artist who shows reality as it is. " - Marina Abramovic

" The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it’s just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle. " - Marina Abramovic

" I hate kitchens. I don’t understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza. " - Marina Abramovic

" An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better. " - Marina Abramovic

" One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience – I love this more than ever. " - Marina Abramovic

" In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything’s real. " - Marina Abramovic

" We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. " - Marina Abramovic

" I believe the artist has an obligation to society. " - Marina Abramovic