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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: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Performance Artist
Performing Artist
Photographer
Photojournalist
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Sculptor
Sound Artist
Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
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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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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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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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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
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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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I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
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If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're living in such a difficult moment of human development. Artists have more responsibility than ever before.
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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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Art comes from life, not from the studio
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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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I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
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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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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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I believe that life is shorter that is why we have to make experience longer.
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Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.
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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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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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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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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 believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
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