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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Performance Artist
Performing Artist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Scenographer
Sculptor
Sound Artist
Belgrade
Serbia
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We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.
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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.
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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
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Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.
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Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
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You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.
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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.
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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
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Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
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Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera. He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.
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I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
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I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
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It was incredible, Lady Gaga came to see the piece. She didn't sit with me, but it was all atwitter. Every single kid from 12 to 18 ran to see Lady Gaga and then Lady Gaga left and they stayed. And they stayed another day another day and it created a completely different culture, a different audience that I never had before.
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Americans don't like European movies.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
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I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.
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