Marina Abramovic Quotes
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I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.
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I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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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.'
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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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My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
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The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
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A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.
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Artists can do whatever they want!
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For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
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When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
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First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
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We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
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I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
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In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
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You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.
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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 want to dominate the man's world.
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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.
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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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I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
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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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If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.
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In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.