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Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Belgrade
Serbia
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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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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I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
Marina Abramovic
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.'
Marina Abramovic
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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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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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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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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I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
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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.
Marina Abramovic
You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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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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Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
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Cancer is an emotional disease.
Marina Abramovic
Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
Marina Abramovic
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
Marina Abramovic
When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
Marina Abramovic
I believe that life is shorter that is why we have to make experience longer.
Marina Abramovic
