Appears Quote by Christo Download Open image “It appears to be monumental only because it's art.” — Christo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appears Art Because Monumental Only
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… — Christo Copy Share Image
“So what's the point of longing for a new, monumental category hidden somewhere in the non-Western discourse? On the contrary, shouldn't we emphasize that… — Ralph Ubl Copy Share Image
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental… — Christo Copy Share Image
Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle. — Christo Copy Share Image
And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. — Christo Copy Share Image
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. — Christo Copy Share Image
It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years. — Christo Copy Share Image
And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through… — Christo Copy Share Image
Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize… — Christo Copy Share Image
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. — Christo Copy Share Image
The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we… — Christo Copy Share Image
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… — Christo Copy Share Image
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… — Christo Copy Share Image
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I won't divulge the details, but there's a way to call somebody's phone and have whatever number you want appear on the caller I.D.… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way - so,… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“The island of Hawaii appears to be developing a Florida climate: Hot and humid with thunderstorms.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Are you facing a superheated furnace? What God wants is for you to look full in the face of Jesus. Get your focus off… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials.… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
