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Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Belgrade
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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 am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
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First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
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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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I believe that life is shorter that is why we have to make experience longer.
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You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.
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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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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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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
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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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Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
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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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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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