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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Film Director
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Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
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I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
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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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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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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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I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.
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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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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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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
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When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.
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With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
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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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Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
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Cancer is an emotional disease.
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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
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Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
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I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.
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