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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Performance Artist
Performing Artist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Scenographer
Sculptor
Sound Artist
Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
M. Abramovic
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Understanding
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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 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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In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.
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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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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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It was incredible, Lady Gaga came to see the piece. She didn't sit with me, but it was all atwitter. Every single kid from 12 to 18 ran to see Lady Gaga and then Lady Gaga left and they stayed. And they stayed another day another day and it created a completely different culture, a different audience that I never had before.
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I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
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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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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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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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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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When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
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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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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
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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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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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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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I believe that life is shorter that is why we have to make experience longer.
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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