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Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Film Director
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Performance Artist
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Photojournalist
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Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
M. Abramovic
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I had such an intense relationship to every person. I still see people on the street and we lock eyes, and say Oh my god! and we just kiss and stay like that and sometimes cry.
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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
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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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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't it's impossible.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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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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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 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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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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