Christo Quotes

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!