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I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.
— Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
performance artist, photographer, video artist, sculptor, sound artist, university teacher, film producer, scenographer, film director, artist, screenwriter, visual artist
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Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of artistic identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art.
All Quotes by Marina Abramovic
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Good art is never made in studio. Good art I make in life.
— Marina Abramovic
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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
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Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
— Marina Abramovic
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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.
— Marina Abramovic
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My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
— 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.
— Marina Abramovic
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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.
— Marina Abramovic
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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
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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
— Marina Abramovic
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Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
— Marina Abramovic