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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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It was incredible, Lady Gaga came to see the piece. She didn't sit with me, but it was all atwitter. Every single kid from 12 to 18 ran to see Lady Gaga and then Lady Gaga left and they stayed. And they stayed another day another day and it created a completely different culture, a different audience that I never had before.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.
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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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We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
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My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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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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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've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.
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