“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.” PeopleIfsWayLooksDifferentArtistSpeakOur LivesPaintingTraumaLandscapeDifferent WaysBeginning Of Life Author:Christian Boltanski
“It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end. People can take from it what they need. If somebody says, "Your art is very funny," I say, "You are totally right." If somebody says, "Your art is very sad," I say, "You are totally right." In Japan they say, "Your art is very Japanese, you even look Japanese.Your great-grandfather was most surely a Japanese man." And I say, "You are totally right."” PeopleIfsMenNeedsLooksLittlesArtEndsStoriesArt IsMarkJapanGrandfatherPretentiousVery SadQuestion MarkGreat Grandfather Author:Christian Boltanski
“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.” ThinkingBelieveLooksPersonsEndsUsedArtistI BelieveMirrorsCarrie Author:Christian Boltanski
