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.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.
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