Serbian - Artist | November 30, 1946 -
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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Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.
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You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
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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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Cancer is an emotional disease.
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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.
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I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
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Artists can do whatever they want!
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Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
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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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First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
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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.
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