31 Quotes by Bulgarian authors

Bulgarian sayings braid mountain-hard pragmatism with tender melancholy, seasoned by black humor and the aroma of bread and salt. Voices from the Revival and the village hearth speak of freedom earned, honor kept, and love carried like a charred ember. The gaida’s plaint, the clang of church bells, and the whisper of rose fields color images of toil, stubborn joy, and weathered patience, metaphors of stone and rain, kin and neighbor, where a wry proverb sits beside Botev’s fire and Yavorov’s shadow.

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"Our work is a scream of freedom"

Christo, Artist

"It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years"

Christo, Artist

"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"

Christo, Artist

"You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer"

Christo, Artist

"The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park"

Christo, Artist

"It appears to be monumental only because it's art"

Christo, Artist

"The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next"

Christo, Artist

"The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side"

Christo, Artist

"Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards"

Christo, Artist

"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"

Christo, Artist

"Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like"

Christo, Artist

"We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards"

Christo, Artist

"The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back"

Christo, Artist

"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"

Christo, Artist

"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"

Christo, Artist

"Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle"

Christo, Artist

"We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage"

Christo, Artist

"If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music"

Christo, Artist

"But the drawings are not created only to be sold"

Christo, Artist

"And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified"

Christo, Artist

"The work of art is a scream of freedom"

Christo, Artist

"New York is our home"

Christo, Artist

"And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park"

Christo, Artist

"We wish to work in total freedom"

Christo, Artist

"Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art"

Christo, Artist

"People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create"

Christo, Artist

"But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York"

Christo, Artist

"To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone"

Christo, Artist

"The freedom of every artist is essential"

Christo, Artist

"We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities"

Georgi Purvanov, Statesman

"I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance"

Georgi Purvanov, Statesman