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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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Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
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If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.
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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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Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
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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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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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Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.
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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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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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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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The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
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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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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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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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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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