43 Quotes by Christo

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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