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Marina Abramovic
Serbian
Artist
Born:
Nov 30
,
1946
Art
Life
Me
People
Work
You
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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
Marina Abramovic
Single
Living
Every
Parallel
Minute
Realities
Actually
Million
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
Marina Abramovic
You
Important
Think
Born
Could
Die
Artist
Moment
Meditate
If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.
Marina Abramovic
Time
You
Ugly
Beauty
Everybody
Incredible
Everywhere
See
Renaissance
Body
Skinny
Meat
Flow
You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
Marina Abramovic
You
Rules
Borders
No Rules
He
Know
Most
Because
James
James Franco
Breaks
Interesting
Figures
I'm interested in asking: 'What does feminine energy mean?' I don't have answers - I just have questions and interesting examples.
Marina Abramovic
Energy
Examples
Does
Answers
Feminine
Questions
Just
Interested
Interesting
Mean
Asking
I want to dominate the man's world.
Marina Abramovic
Man
World
Dominate
Want
So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.
Marina Abramovic
Me
Say
Unbelievable
Audience
Artists
Many
Aware
People in New York never have time for anything.
Marina Abramovic
Time
People
Never
New
York
New York
Anything
When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.
Marina Abramovic
You
Says
Kids
Inspiration
Between
Like
Reach
Am
Brand
Lady
Lady Gaga
Gaga
Jeans
Coca-Cola
Now
Her
I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed.
Marina Abramovic
People
Country
Singing
Party
Everyone
Dancing
Though
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Never
Recurring
Know
House
Course
Came
Existed
Surrounded
Same
Where
After
While
Really
Used
Each
Evening
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.
Marina Abramovic
You
Experience
Dangerous
Sometimes
Important
Young
Out
Follow
Follow Through
Something
Through
Push
Had
Miss
Developmental
Boundaries
Like
Because
Very
Child
Artists
Impulsive
Urge
Might
Urges
The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
Marina Abramovic
Only
Ideas
Most
Revolutionary
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
Myself
Energy
Take
Also
Audience
Limits
Test
Order
Transform
The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.
Marina Abramovic
Work
Down
Aim
Easily
Spirit
Entire
Put
Human
Human Spirit
Elevate
From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like.
Marina Abramovic
Time
Only
Like
Learn
Understood
Very
Things
Early
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
You
Human Being
Better
Face
Become
Easy
Something
Like
Go
Go For It
Human
Afraid
Being
Then
Thing
Things
I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.
Marina Abramovic
Work
Me
President
Way
Cleaner
Am
Very
Same
Explain
Communist
I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.
Marina Abramovic
Cleaning
Mother
Made
Long
Big
Books
Only
Always
Were
Huge
Cupboard
Died
Sent
Pages
Her
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.
Marina Abramovic
Sad
Life
Amazing
Energy
Charisma
Paris
Had
She
Years
Friends
Susan
So Much Energy
Little
Much
Her
Four
Last
Funeral
I have this exercise that I propose to everybody: Hug a tree and complain for a minimum 15 minutes. Be yourself, and do something that you really feel deeply.
Marina Abramovic
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
Hug
Tree
Complain
Everybody
Minimum
Minutes
Something
Propose
Feel
Exercise
Really
Deeply
I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.
Marina Abramovic
Me
Year
Took
Lot
Artist
Produce
Body
Teach
Prepare
Present
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
Life
You
Mother
Discipline
Father
Heroes
Sacrifice
Important
Mother And Father
National
Partisan
Message
Learned
Leave
Private
Were
Private Life
Want
Them
I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
Marina Abramovic
Fears
Way
Always
Transcend
Staged
Them
If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.
Marina Abramovic
Work
You
People
Nervous
Never
Know
How
Going
Receive
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