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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.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Belgrade
Serbia
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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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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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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.
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With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
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Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
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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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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 have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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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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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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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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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 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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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
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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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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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I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.
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