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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
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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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
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I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
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I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
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My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.
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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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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
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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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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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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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I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
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When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.
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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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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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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.
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I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
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The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.
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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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