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

- 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 s…

- Christian Boltanski

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

- Christian Boltanski

Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.

- Christian Boltanski

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 import…

- Christian Boltanski

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 …

- Christian Boltanski

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 sho…

- Christian Boltanski

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

- Christian Boltanski

I 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…

- Christian Boltanski