Christian Marclay quotes
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“When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.”
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“You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.”
-- Christian MarclaySource : "Don't sleeve me this way". Interview with Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.
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“You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.”
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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.”
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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 MarclaySource : "Don't sleeve me this way" by Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.”
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“The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.”
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“As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.”
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“Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.”
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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.”
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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 MarclaySource : "The hours" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.
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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.”
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“It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.”
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“Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.”
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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.”
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