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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Performance Artist
Performing Artist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Scenographer
Sculptor
Sound Artist
Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
M. Abramovic
Revolutionary
Changing
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I didn't give any instruction to the video, because it was a new medium. I didn't know what to tell him it was so young. I did the piece and immediately after the piece, I wanted to see the material.
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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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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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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
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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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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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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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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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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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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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My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
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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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Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
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Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
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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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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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