Serbian - Artist | November 30, 1946 -
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
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
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Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.
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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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Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
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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 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.'
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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.
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You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.
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We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
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I think 21st century should be art without objects.
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