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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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
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Marina Abramoviæ
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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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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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Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.
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If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.
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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
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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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The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
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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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A great artist has to be ready to fail.
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Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
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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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You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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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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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
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I just want to create situations where people forget time.
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When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.
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