People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
Interpretation
Many individuals carry deep emotional pain that often goes unnoticed, even by themselves.
Marina Abramovic's quote highlights the profound and often hidden emotional suffering that many people endure. It suggests that individuals may be unaware of their own pain, indicating that emotional struggles can be deeply buried beneath the surface of everyday life. This insight prompts a greater understanding of human experience and compassion towards others, as everyone may be silently battling their own issues.
In practice
In a mental health awareness campaign, this quote can be used to promote understanding and empathy towards those who struggle silently.
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
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.
Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.
No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.
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