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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
I know when I'm not wanted. Mario Montez
Know Wanted
At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it. Maripol
Good Me Genius Picture Beginning Gave Photographer Having More Could Take Develop He Instead Polaroid Talent Click Styling Doing Go Camera Discovered Lab Very Scout Get Modelling Just Manipulating Then Sudden Film
I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990. Maripol
Freelance Kid Had Became Stylist Survive To Survive Then
When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own patterns. When I first came to New York, people just assumed I was a stylist because I was so into fashion. Maripol
Buy Fashion People First Own Clothes Assumed Later Markets Would Beads My Own Morocco New Make Because Always Stylist Came Lot Friends Child York Just New York Patterns Lived Jewellery
Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her. Maripol
Big Sister Madonna More Like Very Closely Worked Her
Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way. Maripol
Big Sweet Way Madonna See Could Through Had Knew She Make Because Genuine How Ambitious Very Going Break
I think Madonna might have a multiple personality. Maripol
Personality Think Madonna Might Multiple
It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. Marjane Satrapi
Cigarette Lauren Smoke Without Imagine
I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think. Marjane Satrapi
Myself Think Say Just Rebel
Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried. Marjane Satrapi
Tears Cried Dilemma Would Had Well Greatest Go Normal Normal Childhood Childhood Loved Whether Preferred Much
Image is an international language. Marjane Satrapi
Language International International Language Image
I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, 'Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!' Marjane Satrapi
You People Care Papa Say Kids Married Would About Nobody Know Always Got Juliet Yelling Mama Six Romeo Romeo And Juliet Them Imagine
Cinema is a world of imagination. Marjane Satrapi
World Cinema Imagination
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