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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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Marina Abramovic
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Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
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I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.
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You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.
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In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.
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My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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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.
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Cancer is an emotional disease.
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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