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Cancer is an emotional disease.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Film Director
Film Producer
Performance Artist
Performing Artist
Photographer
Photojournalist
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Sculptor
Sound Artist
Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
M. Abramovic
Emotional
Cancer
Disease
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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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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 have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.
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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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Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
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My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.
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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
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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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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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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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Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
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First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
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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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If you have to do durational work, you have to train! No bullshit. You can't do it for three months. You can do it for five hours, 10 hours, and then you have three months rest. If this is your job, you have to be flexible.
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You know the movie Rashomon from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.
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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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Americans don't like European movies.
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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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