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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.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
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With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
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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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It was incredible, Lady Gaga came to see the piece. She didn't sit with me, but it was all atwitter. Every single kid from 12 to 18 ran to see Lady Gaga and then Lady Gaga left and they stayed. And they stayed another day another day and it created a completely different culture, a different audience that I never had before.
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I believe that life is shorter that is why we have to make experience longer.
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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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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'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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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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Talking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's what's wrong. It's not that he's going to change, but the people who think like him.
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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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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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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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Art comes from life, not from the studio
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I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.
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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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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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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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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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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
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