| | If art comes just from art, it loses its power and becomes decorative. I never create art to be decorative. I don’t like this idea of aesthetic beauty- a beautiful frame, nice colors tha og well with the carpet. To me art has to be disturbing. It has to ask questions and have some kind of prediction of the future within it. It has to have different lays of meaning. Each generation has to take what is needed at that time. But it should not be something that just reflects daily life, like a newspaper. You read the newspaper today; tomorrow it’s old. Art has to have a spiritual value and something that opens certain states of consciousness, because we are losing ourself so much. .. The body is becoming something very heavy, an obstacle. This separation will become so diastrous that body and mind eventually must come back together. And art has to have the answers.
When you are producing one thing adn become recognizable and everybody knows you, you have to change. you have to surprise yourself, because the worst is if you just respond to the needs of the market. Then development stops. The seoncd thing he said is that in every artists life, you may think you have a new idea or many new ideas every day. in fact, you may have one good idea, or, if you are a genius, two. But be very careful with this. All the rest is interpretation of the same idea, and for me, the only idea I have always had is the human body. That’s the only thing I have always been interested in. it’s a large area to be explored, and I always feel that i’m just at the beginning.
Kaplan, Janet A., Deeper and Deeper: Interview with Marina Abramovic, Art Journal, College Art Association, Vol.58, No.2 (summer, 1999), pp. 6-21.
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