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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.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.
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Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
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I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.
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Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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