Quotes by Christian Marclay - Page 1

Art is all in the details.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Art
Art Is
Details
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I have never been much of a painter.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Painter
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You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Happens
Ideas
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It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Deals
Life Is
Way
Suppose
Way Life
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As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Artist
Hollywood
Not Talking
Obscure
Talking
Somewhat
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Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Computer
Computer Screen
Direct
Hands
Printing
Sitting
Hands-On
Unlike
Screen
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Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Banality
Statements
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You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Records
Sound
Way
Sounds
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Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Different
Engagement
Important
Thinking
Be Different
Remembering
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When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Apart
Great Sense
Originally
Took
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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Failure
Dice
Improvisation
Just Do It
Might
Then
Again
Total
Throw
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The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Editing
Enjoy
Pieces
Process
Together
Most
Out
Them
Making
Putting
Sense
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Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Children
Cutting
Drawing
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It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Editing
Long
Sitting
Unhealthy
Screen
Suite
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I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Clock
Odd
Pieces
Together
Way
Puzzle
Treat
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If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Interesting
Materials
Offensive
Creators
Something Good
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I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Art
Abstract
Culture
Time Art Culture
Japanese
Manga
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We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Dream
Crumbling
Distraction
Entertainment
Eye
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These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Audience
Clip
Participation
Sample
Share
Triggers
Films
Layer
Material
Recognize
Sounds
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Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Different
Next
Would Be
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'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Allowing
Be Different
Copy
Cover
Document
Medium
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People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Groove
Hard Times
Mean
People
Time Always Me
Time Me Care
Destroy
Hard Time
Something Else
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[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Phones
Photography
Thinking
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I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Chance
Today
Way
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If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Backwards
Different
Groove
Play
Ritual
Speed
Trying
Fits
Turntable
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Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer... I often see things after the fact. So there’s a revelatory quality. And this definitely includes a sense of playfulness, because you’re not sure what the consequences are going to be.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Quality
Eye
Photography
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It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.
Christian Marclay / Visual Artist
Ideas
Past
People
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