For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
Interpretation
The hardest part of creativity is starting on a new project.
This quote by Marina Abramovic emphasizes the psychological challenge that artists face when beginning a new piece of work. It suggests that the uncertainty and pressure to create something meaningful can make the initial stages of a project the most difficult, as one must confront their own expectations and fears before successfully expressing their creativity.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming creative blocks, one might use this quote to illustrate the common struggles faced by artists.
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
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.
Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
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