It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question … - Christian Boltanski

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We must have a spiritual rebirth. We must be born out of the belief in externalities into the belief of inner realities, out of the belief that we are separated from God, into the belief that we are part of a Unitary Wholeness.

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. "

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We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

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The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

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I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.

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In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.

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