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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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When I did Seven Easy Pieces, I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.
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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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Talking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's what's wrong. It's not that he's going to change, but the people who think like him.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.
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Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
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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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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.
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The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
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If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're living in such a difficult moment of human development. Artists have more responsibility than ever before.
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.
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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't it's impossible.
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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.
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I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
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