Christo Quotes

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I never do the same thing twice.

When Wes has a new a project, you know that it's going to be something as different as the previous was from the previous one. Each time, he tries to take you to a country, or a land that is unknown for you and for him, and reinvent this land. That's what he did with 'Darjeeling,' with 'Mr. Fox,' with 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

Sometimes with Polaroids, the shot you want to get in your head doesn't happen. What it makes me do is be patient, I guess, or let go of that presumption of what the shot's going to be.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.