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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.
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
M. Abramovic
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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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When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
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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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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.
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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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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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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 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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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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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
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The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
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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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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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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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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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