Cai Guo-Qiang Quotes

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

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• It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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  • Better
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• When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Love
  • You
  • Learn

• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
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• On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

  

  Iman
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• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Good
  • Why
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• My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • Good
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• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Society
  • Make
  • Blush

• When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Change
  • Look

• All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.

  

  Zendaya
  • Dad
  • Point
  • Brothers

• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
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• The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

  

  Hans Berger
  • First
  • Order
  • Waves

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • End

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Night

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
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  • Wealth

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
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  • Society

• As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Together
  • Artist
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• I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Work
  • Live
  • Age

• The only reason we made 'Toy Story 2' is that we happened to come up with a storyline that was really good. It wasn't driven by wanting to make a sequel.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Up
  • Good

• I was never really into partying.

  

  Coco Martin

• Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Art
  • Political

• 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
  • Country
  • Political
  • City