- Christo: The work of art is not the fabric, steel poles and cable, the work of art is the hills and the ocean, the sky, the gates, the rocks, the people, the light- this is the work of art.
- Jeanne-Claude: It's not what you call size, it's probably the number of miles or kilometers, but that is not the real size of the Running Fence. The real dimensions of the Running Fence are political, social and economic and that's a very, very large dimension indeed.