Marina Abramovic Quotes

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

I love to cook; I love to bake. It's, like, my favorite thing besides acting.

I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything - it's really similar to making music for a show like 'Hannibal.' It's like cooking; it's just like owning a restaurant.

Because of things like 'The X Factor' and 'Autotune', the real art of communicating a song is not treasured any more. But singing other people's songs can be an intensely personal experience. I want the songs to be vessels that people fill with their own imagination, the same way that I fill it with my thoughts and feelings.

None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.

I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of quality.

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

Everything an artist spits is art.

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp