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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. "

Marina Abramovic

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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 how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. "

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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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" When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola. "

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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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" A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room. "

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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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" 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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" Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate. "

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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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" We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do. "

Marina Abramovic

" The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing. "

Marina Abramovic

" When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall. "

Marina Abramovic

" 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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" 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 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

" I don't do husbands. I don't do children. "

Marina Abramovic

" 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.' "

Marina Abramovic

" 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

" 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. "

Marina Abramovic

" Artists can do whatever they want! "

Marina Abramovic

" 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

" 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

" 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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