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When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.

~Marina Abramovic

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Artists can do whatever they want!

~Marina Abramovic

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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

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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.

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In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

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I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

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Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

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Biography

Nationality: Serbian

Type: Artist

Born: November 30th, 1946

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