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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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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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Talking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's what's wrong. It's not that he's going to change, but the people who think like him.
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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 have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
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We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.
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Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
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We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.
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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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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
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In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.
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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't it's impossible.
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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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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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