Marclay Quotes

#1. My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

Jerry Saltz

#2. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

Christian Marclay

#3. With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Christian Marclay

#4. What are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn.

Country Joe McDonald

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

Christian Marclay

#6. I don't want him to say his hope (wish) out loud. Some things need to be simply planted in the soft dirt of possibility.

Kristin Hannah

#7. Age ain't nothing but a number, that's what Chi-Ali said.
OK, then why don't you get that through the judge's head?

Biz Markie

#8. I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this country happen, the power structures, the natural splendor.

Michael Light

#9. You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

Christian Marclay

#10. 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

#11. Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.

Freeman Dyson

#12. But fools wil persist in their madness, will they not?

Maya Rodale

#13. Black belt, and she'd earned the mother of all vendettas by leaving his bed without so much as a note. They'd been friends for almost ten years, since college, a world that lay just a few

Jeri Smith-Ready

#14. One of the first things a typical lesbian learns is that there is no such thing as a typical lesbian.

Yvonne Zipter

#15. The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

Christian Marclay

#16. I have never been much of a painter.

Christian Marclay

#17. 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

#18. [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

#19. Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

Christian Marclay

#20. 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

#21. Art is all in the details.

Christian Marclay

#22. 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

#23. As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

Christian Marclay

#24. When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

Christian Marclay

#25. Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Ask yourself, Allie: Are you alive or just breathing?

Hasti Williams

#30. '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

#31. Why are you acting like such a brat?

John Green

#32. Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

Marvin Olasky

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

Christian Marclay

#34. I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Diane Kruger

#35. You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

Christian Marclay

#36. Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.

Christian Marclay

#37. Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend.

Jared Kushner