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It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

— Christo art

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

— Christo surreal

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

— Christo freedom

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

— Christo win

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

— Christo hope

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 art

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.

— Christo believe

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

— Christo books

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

— Christo ideas

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

— Christo age

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

— Christo age

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

— Christo people

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 men

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

— Christo art

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

— Christo art

Our work is a scream of freedom.

— Christo freedom

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

— Christo beauty

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

— Christo music

The freedom of every artist is essential.

— Christo freedom

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.

— Christo art

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 art

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

— Christo story

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.

— Christo art

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.

— Christo work

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 art

It is not only one persons work, its really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

— Christo art

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