Boltanski Quotes

#1. One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#2. There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

Christian Boltanski

#3. Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.

Quincy Jones

#4. I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.

Christian Boltanski

#5. Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

Matt Nix

#6. I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

Christian Boltanski

#7. The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

Christian Boltanski

#8. Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

Confucius

#9. The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you - you've killed them in a way.

Christian Boltanski

#10. Ketchup
I'm hot, dog
Frankfurters, you're Nathan
But relish hatin'

Azealia Banks

#11. I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.

Christian Boltanski

#12. Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

Christian Boltanski

#13. I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. The more you work, the less you exist. I believe (at least, I used to believe, because I no longer think this is entirely true) that the artist is like someone carrying a mirror in which everyone can look and recognize themselves, so that the person who carries the mirror ends up being nothing.

Christian Boltanski

#15. He liked to talk about the criminals he had put away, and how a person never knew, and how he had to protect his family, and how he wasn't going to let the other guy make the first move, but really it was just that Bert liked guns. The

Ann Patchett

#16. The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy ... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.

Christian Boltanski

#17. Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

Christian Boltanski

#18. We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

Christian Boltanski

#19. In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.

Christian Boltanski

#20. I never take photographs myself. I don't feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

Christian Boltanski

#21. I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

Christian Boltanski

#22. When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.

Christian Boltanski

#23. Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

Sandra Bowden

#24. I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.

Christian Boltanski

#25. We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.

Christian Boltanski

#26. You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

Christian Boltanski

#27. The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

Christian Boltanski

#28. Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.

Christian Boltanski

#29. In the world of technology,In the world of Internet , information,teachings knowledge are spreading so fast but sad no one want to apply or follow because everyone is busy to share.

Mohammed Zaki Ansari