Christian Marclay Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.”

“You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.”

“I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.”

“People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.”

“'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.”

“I have never been much of a painter.”

“It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.”

“As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.”

“Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.”

“You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.”