Christo Quotes

- Artist Born: June 13, 1935

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. Christo

New York, City, Place, New, Central Park

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years. Christo

Work, Collaboration, Partnership, Person

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone. Christo

Freedom, Keep, Cannot, Obliged, Absolute

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent. Christo

Story, Unique, Project, Fabulous, Like

The work of art is a scream of freedom. - Christo

The work of art is a scream of freedom. Christo

Work, Freedom, Art, Scream

But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York. Christo

Life, Today, New York, River, Nice, Know

It appears to be monumental only because it's art. Christo

Art, Only, Because, Monumental, Appears

Our work is a scream of freedom. Christo

Work, Freedom, Scream, Our

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create. Christo

Work, Art, People, Think, Create, Build

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West. Christo

Home, Country, West, Then, Escaped

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission. Christo

New York, City, Remember, Buildings, New

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. Christo

Sell, Books, Because, Postcards, Posters

The freedom of every artist is essential. Christo

Freedom, Artist, Essential, Every

We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist. Christo

Work, Art, Identity, World, Book, Way

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. Christo

Ideas, You, See, Machines, Lots, Drawer

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. Christo

Music, Some, Wrapped, Our, Works, Then

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified. Christo

Simple, Detail, You, Early, Now, Project

But the drawings are not created only to be sold. Christo

Only, Created, Sold, Drawings

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world. Christo

War, World, Cold, End, Political, She

New York is our home. Christo

Home, New York, New, Our, York

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle. Christo

Long, Say, Way, Now, Take, Principle

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian. Christo

Art, Book, Process, Meaning, Now, Own

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever. Christo

Believe, Nothing, Dinosaurs, Years, Stay

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park. Christo

Walk, People, Place, Park, Leisure, Only

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back. Christo

Back, Place, Never, Garbage, Workers

The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next. Christo

Work, River, Trying, Know, Colorado

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