{"author":"Marina Abramovic","author_id":"Marina+Abramovic","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["mistakes","choices","visual "],"id":1459,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"},{"text":"I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["experience","believe "],"id":9964,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"},{"text":"Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["future","past","think "],"id":37364,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"},{"text":"I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'.","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["life","friends","god "],"id":63640,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"},{"text":"My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["marriage","friends","father "],"id":93359,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"},{"text":"Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["understanding","being","own "],"id":103114,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"},{"text":"Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["death","creativity","greatness "],"id":119043,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"},{"text":"Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["know","why","you "],"id":126383,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"},{"text":"I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["day","i am","girl "],"id":144617,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"},{"text":"If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.","author":"Marina Abramovic","tags":["time","body","ugly "],"id":181738,"author_id":"Marina+Abramovic"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}