Christo Quotes

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• I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.
• All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.
• 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…
• Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.
• If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
• 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…
• And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.
• Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
• But the drawings are not created only to be sold.
• 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…
• New York is our home.
• Our work is a scream of freedom.
• 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…
• The freedom of every artist is essential.
• The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.
• 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,…
• To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
• We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at…
• We wish to work in total freedom.
• You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

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