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I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.

Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
Artist
Film Director
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Performance Artist
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Belgrade
Serbia
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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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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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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 made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.
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When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.
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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
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I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.
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I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
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Art comes from life, not from the studio
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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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You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.
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Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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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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Americans don't like European movies.
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Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
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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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