Christo Art Quotes & Sayings

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. — Christo

He thought what she did was horrible, so he insisted on taking the punishment himself, instead of sending another. — Brandon Sanderson

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job. — Michael Gove

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out. — Donna Brazile

I love you so much, so much," he mutters. "It's always been you. It always will be. — Lily Morton

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude. — John C. Maxwell

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. — Christo

Our brains are not actually duplex apartments occupied by feuding neighbors, and how we bring about the complicated act of deceiving ourselves remains a mystery. — Kathryn Schulz

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. — Christo

The only good thing, is that the cold wakes her up and she doesn't have to struggle to stay conscious. The bad thing, is that the numbness is fading away now, and her whole body is racked with pain. — Amy Lunderman

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. — Christo

The work of art is a scream of freedom. — Christo

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art. — Christo

life is a continuous exercise is creative problem solving — Michael J. Gelb

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term. — Randeep Hooda

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things. — Christo

It appears to be monumental only because it's art. — Christo

I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain — Christo Vladimirov Javacheff