When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down. Don't take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.
Interpretation
Heartbreak should be fully experienced to allow for true healing and growth.
Marina Abramovic emphasizes the importance of fully experiencing the pain of heartbreak rather than suppressing it. By embracing the emotions, individuals can ultimately find their way back to strength and vitality, suggesting that true healing comes from confronting feelings head-on instead of avoiding them.
In practice
In a support group discussing coping with heartbreak.
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.
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
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