marina abromovic

artist inspiration - marina abromovic

i've been so inspired by this incredible artist

known as the grandmother of performance art

she is absolutely limitless

her philosophy

and the way she puts her all into her art

is beyond incredible

'i think one of the main question is if someone is an artist at all 

because you can proclaim you are an artist

maybe you are not

maybe you are better doing something else

to know if you are an artist or not is breathing

you don't question breathing

you have to breathe otherwise you just die

 so you breathe

so if you wake up in the morning 

and you have some ideas 

and you have to make them 

and this becomes like a a kind of almost obsession 

and you have this urge to create 

then you are definitely an artist

but you're not a great artist

'the great artists have to be ready to fail

which not too many do

because when you have success in a certain way

and the public accepts you in a certain way

you start somehow involuntary reproducing the same images

the same types of work

and you are not risking

the real artists go to the lengths they've never been

and there is unknown territory

and you can fail

ready to fail

that makes great artists'

'if you want to be famous and rich

forget the idea of being an artist

money and success is not [the] aim

just a side effect

sometimes it happens in your life time

sometimes not'

'you need the courage

when you become routine

that is the end of everything

i do the work i'm afraid of

if i'm really afraid of an idea

this is exactly where i need to go. . .'

her documentary is currently on netflix

a must watch for all artists

absolutely mesmerizing

. . .

(all images found on the web)