Cai Guo-Qiang Quotes
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.

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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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It's not perfect, but compared to the competition, they've made significant progress.
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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.