I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.
Christian BoltanskiEvery time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.
Christian BoltanskiI believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.
Christian Boltanski