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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
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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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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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.
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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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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
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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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When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.
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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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