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Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
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
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Powerful

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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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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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You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.
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Talking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's what's wrong. It's not that he's going to change, but the people who think like him.
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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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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.
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When I did Seven Easy Pieces, I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.
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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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I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
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If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.
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The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
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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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Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'
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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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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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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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Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
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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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