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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.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Belgrade
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Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
M. Abramovic
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I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
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We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.
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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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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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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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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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