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Marina Abramovic

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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. - Marina Abramovic
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#Body
#I Am
#Technology
#Yourself
People in New York never have time for anything. - Marina Abramovic
#Anything
#Never
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It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it; go for it. You become a better human being. - Marina Abramovic
#Afraid
#Better
#Easy
#Face
#Human
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.' - Marina Abramovic
#Amazing
#Energy
#God
#Life
#Sad
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. - Marina Abramovic
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#Attitude
#Colleagues
#Doing
#Me
A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room. - Marina Abramovic
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#Room
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one. - Marina Abramovic
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#People
#Relationship
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own. - Marina Abramovic
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#Experience
#I Believe
#Performance
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I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that. - Marina Abramovic
#Computers
#Leave
#Me
#People
#Technology
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. - Marina Abramovic
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#Lose
#Moment
#Today
#Tomorrow
My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave. - Marina Abramovic
#Discipline
#Father
#Life
#Sacrifice
I don't have tattoos, I have scars! - Marina Abramovic
#Scars
#Tattoos
I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it. - Marina Abramovic
#Audience
#Energy
#Limits
#Myself
#Test
An artist should not fall in love with another artist. - Marina Abramovic
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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. - Marina Abramovic
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#Bread
#Difference
#World
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. - Marina Abramovic
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#Past
#Present
#Project
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. - Marina Abramovic
#Habit
#Hate
#Home
#I Am
#Time
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing. - Marina Abramovic
#Close
#Hardest
#Nothing
#Something
Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhelming and fulfilling. - Marina Abramovic
#Feeling
#Love
#Never
#Unconditional Love
In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real. - Marina Abramovic
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#Everything
#Performance
#Real
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. - Marina Abramovic
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#Mind
#Society
#Universe
The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle. - Marina Abramovic
#DNA
#Feel
#Human
#Nature
#Society
#Understand
#Will
I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it. - Marina Abramovic
#About
#Face
#I Am
#Jealousy
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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. - Marina Abramovic
#Future
#Illusion
#Past
#Present
#Time
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. - Marina Abramovic
#Anniversary
#Father
#Marriage
#Wedding
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. - Marina Abramovic
#Creativity
#Death
#Ego
#Greatness
#Work
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