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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

~Christo

Topics: Able Beautiful Beauty Because Believe Create Done Drawings Hope Joy Majority Never Only Our Sad Specialty Tell Them Through Visualize Will Work

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The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.

~Christo

Topics: Artist Because Chances Decision Deliberately Difficult Established Get Made Name Only Our Put Side Use Wanted Were Young

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Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

~Christo

Topics: Artist Every Her His Likes Make People Think Work World

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In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.

~Christo

Topics: Alien Artists Became Building Here Illegal Illegal Aliens Living Move Moved Paris Put Some Started Three Time Up Were Windows Years

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I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

~Christo

Topics: Bulgaria Country Escaped Home Then West

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We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.

~Christo

Topics: Also Because California Finishing Get Getting Japan Just Know Never Only Over Permission Project Reichstag River Started Will Work Working Wrap

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We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist.

~Christo

Topics: Art Artists Book Exist How Idea Identity Only Process Projects Reveal Slightest Starting Through Way Who Whole Will Work World

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I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.

~Christo

Topics: Drawings Lot Permanent Sculptures Work

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In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

~Christo

Topics: Arrived Buildings City First Got Lower Manhattan Never New New York New York City Our Permission Proposal Remember Seeing Skyline Two Vividly Wrap York I Remember

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Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

~Christo

Topics: Been Come Heads Hearts Ideas Never Other Our Out Over People Projects Proposed Refused Some Two Years

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Artist

Born: June 13th, 1935

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