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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

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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Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera. He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.
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A great artist has to be ready to fail.
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
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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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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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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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Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
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I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.
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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
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The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
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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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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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Art comes from life, not from the studio
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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
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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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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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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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If you have to do durational work, you have to train! No bullshit. You can't do it for three months. You can do it for five hours, 10 hours, and then you have three months rest. If this is your job, you have to be flexible.
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