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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Performance Artist
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Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
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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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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.'
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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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Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.
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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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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
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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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With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
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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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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 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 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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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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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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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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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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