Marina Abramovic Quotes
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
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I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
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The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.
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Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.
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The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
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Americans don't like European movies.
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I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
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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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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.
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For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
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Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
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I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.
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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
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To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
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Cancer is an emotional disease.
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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.