Marina Abramovic Quotes
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Cancer is an emotional disease.
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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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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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For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
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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 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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We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.
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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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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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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.
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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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You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
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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.
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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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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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In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.
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People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
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I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it.
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Americans don't like European movies.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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I don't do husbands. I don't do children.
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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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You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.