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I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.
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I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
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I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.
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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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Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera. He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.
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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.
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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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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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