Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
Interpretation
Artists are encouraged to break norms and explore new ideas.
This quote by Marina Abramovic emphasizes the freedom that artists have to express themselves in unconventional ways. It suggests that embracing the strange and different can lead to unique and authentic creations, encouraging individuals to step outside their comfort zones and explore creativity without limitations.
In practice
During an art workshop, I urged participants to embrace their inner artist and remember, 'Why not do something strange and different for once?'
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.
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the societyβs values, can force it to change.
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."
It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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