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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.

Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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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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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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When I did Seven Easy Pieces, I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.
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My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.
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Art comes from life, not from the studio
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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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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
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I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.
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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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You know the movie Rashomon from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.
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The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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I just want to create situations where people forget time.
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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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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.
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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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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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You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.
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