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Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Performance Artist
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Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
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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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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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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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A great artist has to be ready to fail.
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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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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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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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I believe that life is shorter that is why we have to make experience longer.
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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
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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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I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.
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My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
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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 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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I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
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If you have to do durational work, you have to train! No bullshit. You can't do it for three months. You can do it for five hours, 10 hours, and then you have three months rest. If this is your job, you have to be flexible.
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I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's 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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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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