Marina Quotes

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.

I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Let's make something happen to this world.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has a slight egomaniac inside of them.

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.

What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

I love 40's-60's fashion because it suits the type of figure that I have the most, so that's what I always go for. I won't change!

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichéd ‘should haves ‘if I’d’ ‘wish I’d’

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.