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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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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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Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.
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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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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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I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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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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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.
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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
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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 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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I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.
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I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.
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I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.
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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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We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.
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I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.
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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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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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You know the movie Rashomon from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.
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