Marina Abramovic
Artist
1946-11-30
Books by Marina Abramovic
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Balkan Epic
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The Biography of Biographies
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Quotes by Marina Abramovic
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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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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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I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
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When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.
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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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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.
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I don't have tattoos, I have scars!
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The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
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In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.
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To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.
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I am thrilled Lady Gaga has helped to teach her audience about long durational work and performance art.
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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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All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.
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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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It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
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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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One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.
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Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.
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You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'
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