Christo Quotes

Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker. — Rose Christo

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

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

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

What?" he said. "You let me draw all over your arm in permanent ink, but I hand you a vegetable and you chicken out? — Rose Christo

It's not blood that makes us who we are," Dad said. "It's family. And it's not blood that makes us family. It's love. — Rose Christo

If we can die at any minute," I said, "why are you wasting your life dreading it? Why don't you just live while you have the chance? — Rose Christo

I don't know how your dad could have left you alone, anyway," Rafael said indignantly. "It's obvious you're the coolest person on the planet. — Rose Christo

I want you. I want you so much. I think I want you more than anything and that scares me, sometimes. — Rose Christo

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle. — Christo

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

The freedom of every artist is essential. — Christo

For the wisest are always the humblest. — Shanti Christo Foundation

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

How horrible uncertainty was. How cruel. — Rose Christo

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

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

New York is our home. — Christo

Sometimes an adventure is a mundane thing. A trip to the shore with your best friend. Learning you can laugh in unearthly ways. — Rose Christo

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

He swore loudly, confused. I won't repeat the word here. I'm a gentleman. — Rose Christo

Nor had I realized until that moment how much of a group project it was to grow up. — Rose Christo

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

It struck me as kind of crazy, kind of amazing, that one person could make me feel so serene just by being. — Rose Christo

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone. — Christo

Some dumbass outside the reserve thinks you're wearing a butterfly on your arm, you'll get your ass kicked, Rafael said. — Rose Christo

This is how you know somebody loves you. When you can't tie your own shoes and they don't mind tying them for you. — Rose Christo

Children are remarkably cruel in their candor. In their cruelty, they are innocent — Rose Christo

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

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West. — Christo

I don't know what you're talking about. I just like animals," Rafael said. "So does Sky, except he's kind of a hippie soulbonder about it. — Rose Christo

I kissed him like he was air and I couldn't breathe. — Rose Christo

Our work is a scream of freedom. — Christo

I picked up my flute and smiled, eyebrows dancing. "Why don't you show her your straight dance?"
"Is there a gay dance, too?" Mickey asked. — Rose Christo

You can't change the past, you know? You can't change who you were, but you can change who you're going to be. — Rose Christo

Hope for the best," I said. "Prepare for the worst. — Rose Christo

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

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

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

Communicate with intelligence by saying what you mean without saying it in a mean way. — Jordy Christo

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

We wish to work in total freedom. — Christo

But the drawings are not created only to be sold. — Christo

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park. — Christo