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I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Performance Artist
Performing Artist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Scenographer
Sculptor
Sound Artist
Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
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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 had such an intense relationship to every person. I still see people on the street and we lock eyes, and say Oh my god! and we just kiss and stay like that and sometimes cry.
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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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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.
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Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
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I believe that life is shorter that is why we have to make experience longer.
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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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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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I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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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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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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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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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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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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