Christo Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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 all by any standards.”

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

“Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.”

“Our work is a scream of freedom.”

“And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The freedom of every artist is essential.”