Quotes About Cai Guo Qiang

#1. Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#2. I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try.

Karen Walker

#3. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

#4. You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

Bill Ayers

#5. My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#6. Burn my eyes with a smile,
my hands with your skin,
my heart with your love,
my soul with your sin.
Be the raging fire
that lies within.

Kirk Diedrich

#7. Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#8. For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#9. You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.

Carl Theodor Dreyer

#10. Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#11. In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#12. To have a good enemy, choose a friend: He knows where to strike. DIANF DE POITIERS, 1499-1566, MISTRESS OF HENRI II OF FRANCE

Robert Greene

#13. When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#14. She lifted a shoulder casually and slowly blinked.
"Where do you want to be?"
"With you," he answered without hesitation.

Donna Grant

#15. I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#16. I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.

Jeffrey Archer

#17. Daisy offered a mosquito which bit you and gave you yellow fever. 'You turn as yellow as a lemon and then you die,' she said.

Eva Ibbotson

#18. The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

Charles Darwin