Top 37 Marclay's 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. What did it mean to be called "lord"? I'll assume you've never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen to be British royalty. (And, if by chance you are, then let me say, "Hello, Your Majesty! Welcome to my stupid book. Can I borrow some cash?")
Brandon Sanderson
#3. We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.
John Green
#4. Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.
Christian Marclay
#5. After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.
Cobi Jones
#6. An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
Robert Bork
#7. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.
Michael Monroe
#8. You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
Christian Marclay
#9. 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
#10. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
Christian Marclay
#11. Every human being has the same potential. Whatever makes you feel "I am worthless" is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought, so what could you possibly be lacking? If you have the willpower, then you can do anything.
Dalai Lama XIV
#12. There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#13. The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
Vicente Del Bosque
#14. The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.
Christian Marclay
#16. 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
#17. [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
#18. Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.
Christian Marclay
#19. Somehow Rabbit can't tear his attention from where the ball should have gone, the little ideal napkin of clipped green pinked with a pretty flag.
John Updike
#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
#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. Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets
Sunday Adelaja
#24. As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
Christian Marclay
#25. When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
Christian Marclay
#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. With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
Christian Marclay
#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. Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
Christian Marclay
#32. The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.
Lewis Mumford
#33. I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
Tyra Banks
#35. The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.
Laozi
#36. Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.
Christian Marclay
#37. In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.
Nina Fedoroff
