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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.

~Marina Abramovic

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

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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.

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A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Serbian

Type: Artist

Born: November 30th, 1946

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