Marina Abramovic Quotes

Just enjoy every moment - don't stress. Just be yourself.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

It's either I have to be in the trees or in the ocean, otherwise I lose my mind. I have to get connected with nature, otherwise I don't feel very good. And that's what life's about, feeling good, so nature knows best for me.

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

I don't journal to 'be productive.' I don't do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren't intended for anyone but me. It's the most cost-effective therapy I've ever found.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

Whenever you get nervous about anything, start dancing. You'll feel better.

I like to meditate, take baths at home with essential oils and salts and write in a journal.

I think one of the most important things is just being outside and in touch with nature. You need it!

It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home.

With how much stress I have every day in the gym, you need a little time to get out and just be whoever you want to be.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

We all have our daily prescription of yoga, football, religion, or whatever gets us through that day. My thing is music. It's the only thing that gives me a sense of calm and balance. It's the thing I know I'm good at.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.