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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

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
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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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Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
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I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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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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A great artist has to be ready to fail.
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I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
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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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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
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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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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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I just want to create situations where people forget time.
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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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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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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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I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
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The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
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