Ai Weiwei Quotes
Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
Ai Weiwei
Quotes to Explore
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I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
Maisie Williams
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
Maika Monroe
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
Origen
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
OMI
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
Laura Linney
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Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.
James Cameron
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Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden
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I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
Brad Renfro
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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.
William Shakespeare
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To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
Diego Rivera
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Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
Ai Weiwei