Christian Marclay famous quotes

03-26-2025

Art is all in the details.
-- Christian Marclay

#Art #Details #Art Is
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
-- Christian Marclay

#Together
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
-- Christian Marclay

#Records #Way #Sound
You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.
-- Christian Marclay

#Ideas
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

#Art #Culture #Abstract
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

#Play #Trying #Different
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

#Mean #Hard Times #People
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

#Would Be #Records #Next
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

#Dream #Eye #Facts
Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
-- Christian Marclay

#Hands #Sitting #Computer
The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.
-- Christian Marclay

#Editing #Together #Pieces
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
-- Christian Marclay

#Artist #Talking #Hollywood
Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.
-- Christian Marclay

#Thinking #Important #Different
I have never been much of a painter.
-- Christian Marclay

#Painter
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

#Together #Pieces #May
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

#Interesting #Offensive #Materials
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

#Editing #Long #Sitting
It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
-- Christian Marclay

#Way #Life Is #Deals
Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.
-- Christian Marclay

#Children #Cutting #Drawing
Iâ€™ve worked with collage a lot. And thereâ€™s this chance thing that happens-you donâ€™t always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But youâ€™ve got this thing, and you make it work. Itâ€™s the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
-- Christian Marclay

#Today #Way #Chance

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