Marina Abramovic Quotes

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.

Marina Abramovic

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtPerformanceYouKnowFirstGive

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

Joe Wurzelbacher

ControlGunGun ControlDefendWere

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

John Guare

LiveHistoryWorldBadBecomeWhere

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

John James Audubon

GreatFirstFinishDealMadeWanted

I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.

Michael Connelly

BookBlackLuckyFirstGotEcho

Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.

Tsai Ing-wen

DemocracyFlawsRisingChinaStill

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Tom Hanks

GoodBusinessWorldChanceYouBad

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Rita Dove

PeopleMeThinkCountrySometimes

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

Rivers Cuomo

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It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.

Mike Judge

PeopleMeSayingWeirdLawyersHear

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

Mira Nair

AmericaYouSaidNowSayMean

I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious.

Mitski

DanceYouSeriousSayPlayfulTwist

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.

Julia Glass

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