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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
Because
Collage
Detail
Drawings
Early
Every
Getting
Idea
Just
Negotiations
Now
Permit
Project
See
Simple
Takes
Through
Vague
Vague Idea
Years
You
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And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.
~ Christo
Central
Central Park
City
Most
New
New York
New York City
Park
Place
Unusual
York
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Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
~ Christo
Because
Books
Photographs
Postcards
Posters
Royalties
Sell
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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.
~ Christo
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.
~ Christo
Created
Drawings
Only
Sold
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Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.
~ Christo
Cold
Cold War
Economic
End
Europe
Germany
Giant
Her
Midget
Muscle
Political
Presence
She
Started
Throughout
War
World
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If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
~ Christo
Chamber
Music
Our
Some
Symphonies
Then
Works
Wrapped
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It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
~ Christo
Appears
Art
Because
Monumental
Only
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It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.
~ Christo
Collaboration
Only
Partnership
Person
Really
Work
Years
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New York is our home.
~ Christo
Home
New
New York
Our
York
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Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.
~ Christo
How
Long
Now
Our
Principle
Projects
Say
Some
Take
Way
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Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.
~ Christo
About
Art
Because
Book
Describe
Each
Each One
Entire
Historian
Meaning
Now
Our
Own
Process
Projects
Reichstag
Which
Wrapped
Written
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Our work is a scream of freedom.
~ Christo
Freedom
Our
Scream
Work
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People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
~ Christo
Airport
Art
Because
Beings
Bigger
Build
Create
Giant
Highways
Human
Human Beings
Miles
Monumental
Much
Our
People
Than
Things
Think
Thousands
Work
design
copy
That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.
~ Christo
Because
Believe
Could
Definitely
Dinosaurs
Even
Exists
Five
Forever
Four
Maintained
Nothing
Remain
Stay
Thousand
Thousand Years
Well
Years
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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
Artist
Because
Chances
Decision
Deliberately
Difficult
Established
Get
Made
Name
Only
Our
Put
Side
Use
Wanted
Were
Young
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The freedom of every artist is essential.
~ Christo
Artist
Essential
Every
Freedom
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The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.
~ Christo
Leisure
Manhattan
Only
Park
People
Place
Walk
Where
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The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.
~ Christo
Back
Beaches
Before
Brought
Condition
Did
Exception
Fabric
Garbage
Had
Islands
Never
Off
Original
Other
Our
Place
Remove
Restore
Surrounded
Those
Tons
Where
Workers
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The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.
~ Christo
Arkansas
Both
Colorado
Get
Got
Know
Next
Other
Over
Permit
Project
Realized
River
Started
State
Therefore
Those
Trying
Which
Will
Work
Working
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BirthDate
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