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My wife has joked that if anything ever happened to me, she'd gladly live out her life without anyone else around. I think it bugs her I'm home all the time; such is the life cycle of the cartoonist, however. Chris Ware

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world. Chris Ware

You Yourself World Lose Own Books Kid Seemed Could Like Liked Were Dense Just Afternoon Them Whole

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive. Chris Ware

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case. Chris Ware

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

Unlike Direct Computer Computer Screen Printing Very Hands-On Sitting Screen

Art is all in the details. Christian Marclay

Art Details

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think. Christian Marclay

Will Important Every Think Be Different Remembering Person Different Engagement

I have never been much of a painter. Christian Marclay

Never Been Much Painter

'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

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

Time Me People Care Giving Whatever Else Destroy Would About Something Something Else Records Could Performance Always Sound Than Just Break Mean Them Create Groove Hard Who Hard Time

I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products! Christien Meindertsma

Single Year Field Tea Other Enough Hundreds Weaving Bought Towels Industrial Enable Textile Items Owned Dutch Producer Producing Production Products Now Grown-Up Level Museum

I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people. Christien Meindertsma

People Logical Made Met Way Kinds Followed Seems Instance Like Until Also Pig Makers Years End Up Which Producers Mold Farmers Products Ammunition Butcher Number

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that. Christien Meindertsma

Invention Bone Though Pottery Had Developed Contains Course Been Discovered Forget Which China Next Inclined British Bones

Our work is a scream of freedom. Christo

Work Freedom Our Scream

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years. Christo

Work Collaboration Only Partnership Years Person Really

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

Nothing Believe Definitely Thousand Thousand Years Stay Dinosaurs Remain Could Maintained Well Because Years Exists Five Forever Even Four

It appears to be monumental only because it's art. Christo

Art Monumental Only Because Appears

The freedom of every artist is essential. Christo

Freedom Every Artist Essential

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like. Christo

People Projection Will Important Believe Drawings Visualize About New Like Look Talk Because Least Arrive New People Very Where Place Them Hard Show Therefore Image

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone. Christo

Freedom We Cannot Obliged Absolute Absolute Freedom Anyone Cannot Keep

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