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I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Belgrade
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You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.
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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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If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.
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You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
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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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Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.
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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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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.
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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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The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
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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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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
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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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When I did Seven Easy Pieces, I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.
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You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.
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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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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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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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