Marina Abramovic Quotes

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

Marina Abramovic

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: serbian
  • Birth: November 30, 1946

Topics

PowerExperiencePeopleBelieveWant

I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.

Jimmy Chin

BeautifulPracticePeopleLovedOld

After attending The Dalton School and then Vassar College, I began cooking in New York City restaurants helmed by Anne Rosenzweig, Joachim Splichal and Thomas Keller.

Andrew Zimmern

CookingSchoolNew YorkCityCollege

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

John M. Ford

PeopleExpectationsAudienceDislike

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

John Major

HealthSportsMoneyGovernmentLook

Every Russian emperor from Peter the Great to Stalin and Putin knows a leader and his security agencies must never be parted. His safety depends on their slavish devotion.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

LeaderGreatSafetySecurityNever

If you look at 'Breaking Bad,' nothing lacks.

Michelle Monaghan

YouLookBadNothingBreakingLacks

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.

Michael Korda

PeopleWritingSmallSpeakLanguage

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

PassionGreatTimePeopleInspire

Reforms to product and labour markets, education, innovation, green growth, competition, taxes, health - they are the things that should be the object of our primary focus in the context of a long-term strategy to restore sustained growth.

Jose Angel Gurria

EducationGrowthInnovationHealth

You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.

Dawn Richard

TimeArtCoolFinancialYouArtist

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

Brad Bird

TimeBrainWinThinkThinkingYou

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Annaleigh Ashford

LiveBeautifulArtThinkWillJust

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