Marina Abramovic Artist Quotations

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'

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.

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

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

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

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

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

Artists can do whatever they want!

A great artist has to be ready to fail.