Marina Abramovic Quotes

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

I love body language.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.

The one thing that robots really find difficult to do is to look someone in the eye and have a sense of how they're feeling. We should be teaching that in schools.

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

Communication is the transfer of emotion.

Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.

My favorite sign here says, "I care about you." In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say, "Let them die," that is a deeply radical statement.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.