27 Quotes by Christian Marclay

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

I have never been much of a painter.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.