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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
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Sound Artist
Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
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When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.
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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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The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
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When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
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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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I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.
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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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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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A great artist has to be ready to fail.
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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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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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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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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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We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.
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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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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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