Marina Abramović on what it means to be an artist

Marina Abramović survived a terrible childhood to become a pioneering artist. In recounting her creative journey, she asserts with the most hard-earned kind of authority:

You know you are an artist if you have to do art — it’s like breathing and you have no choice. Nothing should be able to stop you.

Read more about how she turned trauma into creative power [here][2].

[2]: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/27/getting-there-marina-abramovic-interview