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Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

~Christo

Topics: About Arrive Because Believe Drawings Hard Image Important Least Like Look New New People People Place Projection Show Talk Them Therefore Very Visualize Where Will

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To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.

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We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

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

~Christo

Topics: Beauty Danger Energy Everything Involves Me Meet Real Real World Risk The Real World World

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It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

~Christo

Topics: Advance Another Drawings Each Gates How Image Important Know Look Never Only Our Project Projects Same Same Thing Thing Twice Understand Unique Very Vision Will Work

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

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Topics: Chamber Music Our Some Symphonies Then Works Wrapped

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And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

~Christo

Topics: Because Collage Detail Drawings Early Every Getting Idea Just Negotiations Now Permit Project See Simple Takes Through Vague Years You

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Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

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But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

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Topics: Because Happened Know Life New New York Next Nice November Now Our Over Project Realized River Something Today Truly Very York

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But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Artist

Born: June 13th, 1935

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