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When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Belgrade
Serbia
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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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Art comes from life, not from the studio
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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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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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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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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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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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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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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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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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Talking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's what's wrong. It's not that he's going to change, but the people who think like him.
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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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It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
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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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I believe that life is shorter that is why we have to make experience longer.
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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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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I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
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