Marina Abramovic Quotes

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. And consensus is antithetical to the art process.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.

A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something... Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it... Nothing is important... so everything is important.

Energy and art go where they will.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.