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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: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Marina Abramovic
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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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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.
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The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
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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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If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.
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I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.
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I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.
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I just want to create situations where people forget time.
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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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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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Cancer is an emotional disease.
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