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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.

Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Belgrade
Serbia
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If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.
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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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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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Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.
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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 just want to create situations where people forget time.
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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
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We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.
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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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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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