- Artist | June 13, 1935 -
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
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The freedom of every artist is essential.
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We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist.
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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
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You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.
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If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
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But the drawings are not created only to be sold.
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Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.
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New York is our home.
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Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.
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Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.
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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.
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