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I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.
Marina Abramovic
Art
Good
You
Man
Woman
Made
Think
Bad
No Difference
Between
Piece
Course
Female
Dealing
Issues
Maybe
Difference
Different
Really
Good Art
One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.
Marina Abramovic
Love
Me
Wonderful
Somebody
Else
More
Perform
Most
Audience
Am
Than
Wonderful Things
Where
Ever
Things
Watch
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
Marina Abramovic
Life
My Life
Would
Would-Be
Performance
Most
Get
Did
Paid
Billionaire
Now
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.
Marina Abramovic
Buy
Art
You
Memory
Difficult
Immaterial
Collect
Stays
Something
Performance
How
Very
Just
Happened
Moment
Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
Marina Abramovic
You
Technology
Phones
Develop
Know
Because
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Use
Why
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.'
Marina Abramovic
Life
You
You Can Do It
Fear
My Life
Mirror
Stage
Pain
Difficulties
Our
Our Lives
Tell
See
Purpose
Through
Performance
Primordial
Audience
Go
Artist
Front
Dying
Which
Them
Then
Certain
Your
Yours
Lives
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
Sad
Life
God
Amazing
Energy
Thinking
Charisma
Paris
Had
Wrong
She
Years
Friends
Susan
So Much Energy
Loved
Little
Much
Her
Four
Rainy
Last
Funeral
Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time.
Marina Abramovic
Life
Love
Time
Fashion
My Life
Seen
Think
Honestly
Say
Wear
Vanity
Supposed
Most
Always
Prove
Same
Artists
Same Time
Anything
Many
Things
Need
In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.
Marina Abramovic
Everything
Performance
Real
Blood
Theater
Ketchup
I believe the artist has an obligation to society.
Marina Abramovic
Obligation
Believe
Society
Artist
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
Marina Abramovic
Me
Become
Only
Feel
Obsessive
Ideas
Make
Am
Uneasy
Afraid
Interested
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
Marina Abramovic
Day
Religion
Me
Communism
Strict
Girl
Field
Other
Side
Kind
Would
Between
Obsessive
Sure
Makes
Always
Am
Freud
Child
Person
Little
Little Girl
Turns
Who
Even
Orthodox
Two
Pulled
When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'
Marina Abramovic
Me
People
Country
Say
Never
Longer
Come
Always
Am
Exists
Where
Ask
Serbia
Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
Marina Abramovic
Good
Girl
Instance
Performing
Traces
Am
Very
Quiet
Ordinary
Little
Little Girl
Really
Even
Even Now
Now
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
Marina Abramovic
Work
Think
Side
Never
Idol
Effect
Fame
Artists
Themselves
Should
I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.
Marina Abramovic
Ugly
Whatever
Clothes
Skin
Too
Eat
About
Self-Conscious
Fitting
Get
Hanging
Really
Notice
Start
Fat
With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
Marina Abramovic
You
Yourself
Classical
Ballet
Literally
Injuring
In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
Marina Abramovic
Age
Everyone
Hiding
Always
America
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
Marina Abramovic
Relationship
People
Ending
Put
Effort
Little
Much
Starting
The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.
Marina Abramovic
Crazy
Mind
Difficult
Focused
Most
Most Difficult Thing
Thing
Difficult Thing
I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
Marina Abramovic
Life
Experience
Believe
Longer
Make
Why
All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
Marina Abramovic
Life
Way
Inspiration
Never
How
Stops
For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
Marina Abramovic
Me
Difficult
About
Most
Piece
Make
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
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