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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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Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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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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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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Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
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The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
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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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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.
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When I did Seven Easy Pieces, I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.
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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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Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.
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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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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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Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
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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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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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The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.
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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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I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
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I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.
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Art comes from life, not from the studio
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