Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?
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Marina Abramović
Performance artist
Serbia · b. 1946
Arts and letters
About
Serbian performance artist whose works include Rhythm 0, the twelve-day The House with the Ocean View and The Artist Is Present, a 736-hour piece performed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010. She was born in Belgrade and has worked in Amsterdam and New York.
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To myself. I am my harshest critic.
Whenever I finish good work.
To be eaten by a shark.
His holiness the Dalai Lama and his ability to forgive.
My difficulty to forgive.
Pretending I’m happy when I’m not.
A cashmere shawl.
That performance art has become a part of mainstream art.
Long hair, big nose, large ass.
That my nose and chin will touch.
Exactly what I am now.
Eternal happiness.
Last year when I had a pulmonary embolism – it was a very scary time.
To have more time.
Twenty-one grams of energy goes into the universe.
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