Ai Weiwei Quotes

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

Ai Weiwei

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• A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Style

• The purpose of all wars, is peace.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Peace
  • Purpose
  • Wars

• If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Play
  • Face
  • Characters

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • You
  • Hip Hop
  • Graffiti

• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Advantage

• When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Small
  • Single

• I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Work
  • History
  • Peace

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Proud
  • Election

• Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Work
  • Done
  • Learned

• Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Age
  • Change
  • Star

• I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Reason

• I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Need
  • Artists
  • Director

• Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Money
  • Kind
  • Musicians

• I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Determination
  • Drunk

• My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Money
  • Dad

• The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Nature

• A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

  

  Eileen Caddy
  • High
  • Soul

• I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

  

  Kyle Dunnigan
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• On the frontiers of the self: 'What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not even I.'

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Suffering

• I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

  

  Ai Weiwei