From Calvin Tomkins’ March 29, 2004, profile of Christo and Jeanne-Claude:

At a lecture at the Pratt Institute in 1980, when someone asked why they refused to consider situating “The Gates” in an alternate location, [Jeanne-Claude] answered, “Sir, did you marry the woman you loved, or an alternate woman?” At the Bloomberg press conference last January, when a reporter pressed her to give a cost figure for “The Gates,” she told him, “Go and ask your mother if she could give an estimate for the cost of raising you.”

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