Christo Quotes

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

I admire cool renderings of hot topics.

Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind of like the idea of nailing the thing down and not really showing too much about it. There's just so much you can take for collage nowadays.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I start a picture and I finish it.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

The style depends on the subject.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager.