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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
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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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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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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.
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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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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
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I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.
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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
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Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
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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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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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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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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
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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 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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You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
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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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