Christo Quotes:
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
Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that’s our principle.
Christo
And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
Christo
All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.
Christo
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
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
Christo
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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
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
Christo
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
And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.
Christo
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
Christo
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
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
It appears to be monumental only because it’s art.
Christo
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
I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.
Christo
We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for ‘Over the River,’ we started in 1992. I was just finishing ‘The Umbrellas’ in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.
Christo
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