Christo Quotes

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

I can concentrate on my art.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

When I make a picture, I make love.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?