Christo Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.”

“I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.”

“New York is our home.”

“Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.”

“The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.”

“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 to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.”

“Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.”