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Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић, pronounced [marǐːna abrǎːmoʋitɕ]; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian performance artist. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art." She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body."

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If you have to do durational work, you have to train! No bullshit. You can't do it for three months. You can do it for five hours, 10 hours, and then you have three months rest. If this is your job, you have to be flexible.

Bullshit, Five, Hours, Train, Work

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

Different, Forests, People, Performance, Rashomon

The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.

Clothes, Created, Cutting, Gun, Rose

Art comes from life, not from the studio

Art, Life, Studio, Studios

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.

Art, Attitude, Colleagues, Documentation, Early, General

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

Artist, Artists, Chambers, Creating, Foundations, Putting

I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

Bridges, Bridging, Different, Giving, Other Cultures, Situations

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

Girl, Instance, Littles, Ordinary, Performing, Quiet

I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.

Consciousness, Helped, People, Purpose, Think, Thinking

Cancer is an emotional disease.

Cancer, Disease, Emotional

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

Artist, Fall, Falling In Love, Love

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.

Art, Firsts, Giving, Know, Percent

We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.

Like, Never Change, Things, Want, Way

I think communication starts when words are not present at all. . . I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Actually, Communication, Silence, Starts, Thinking

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

Borders, Break, Breaks, Franco, Interesting

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.

Artist, Fear, Mirror, Mirrors, Pain

There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't care if people think I'm overexposed. What I care about is if I'm going to run out of energy. Overexposure is only a problem if you are drained of energy and cannot come up with new ideas. Every artist has to recognize that and know when to stop for a moment.

Art, Artist, Overexposed, Running, Think, Thinking

We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.

Destroying, Planet, Planets, Rebel, Rebels

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

Artist, Can Do, Future, Look, Looks

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Artist, Born, Die, Important, Thinking

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