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Top 15 Christian Boltanski Quotes (2025 Update)

Christian Boltanski Quote: “We all die twice – once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.”

1. “We all die twice – once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt.”

2. “Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “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.”

3. “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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Christian Boltanski Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I’m sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can’t imagine why they kept me.”

5. “When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I’m sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can’t imagine why they kept me.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.”

6. “I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can’t visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.”

7. “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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Christian Boltanski Quote: “The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.”

8. “The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.”

9. “Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say “Why not me?” That machine is always there.”

10. “I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say “Why not me?” That machine is always there.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.”

11. “There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler.”

12. “I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental – I am a sentimental minimalist.”

13. “I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental – I am a sentimental minimalist.”

— Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski Quote: “The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.”

14. “The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.”

15. “You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.”

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Christian Boltanski Quote: “In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies – that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.”

16. “In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies – that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.”

— Christian Boltanski

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