Ai Weiwei Quotes

What can they do besides exile me or make me disappear? They have no imagination or creativity.

Ai Weiwei

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• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Imagination

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Work
  • Different
  • Creativity

• The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Me
  • Creativity
  • Anger

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Reality
  • Know
  • Talking

• The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Great
  • Know
  • Imagination

• Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.

  

  Adam Grant
  • May
  • Creativity
  • Easy

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination
  • Word

• I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

  

  Lara St. John
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Society
  • Free

• Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Up

• The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Study

• Dharma gives you the balance. It gives you the establishment into proper behavior, proper understanding, proper living, but it doesn't give you the completion of your journey. It doesn't give you the satisfaction of reaching the destination and your personality is still incomplete. So one has to have the experience of the spirit.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• What can they do besides exile me or make me disappear? They have no imagination or creativity.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Imagination
  • Creativity