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A great artist has to be ready to fail.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Film Director
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Performance Artist
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Photojournalist
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Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
M. Abramovic
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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
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I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.
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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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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
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We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.
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