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My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
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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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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 just want to create situations where people forget time.
Marina Abramovic
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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Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'
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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.
Marina Abramovic
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
Marina Abramovic
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.'
Marina Abramovic
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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You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
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Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.
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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.
Marina Abramovic
People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't it's impossible.
Marina Abramovic
With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
Marina Abramovic
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.
Marina Abramovic
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.
Marina Abramovic
Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
Marina Abramovic
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
Marina Abramovic
We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.
Marina Abramovic
I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
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