Ai Weiwei Quotes

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

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• I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • College

• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Difficult

• I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Journey
  • Limits
  • Reggae

• It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Done
  • Journey
  • Stupid

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • Students
  • Mercy

• I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Play

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Action
  • Fate

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Depth
  • Length

• Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Fight

• I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Fashion

• There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Good
  • Tomorrow
  • Weathers

• I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

  

  Jonah Lomu
  • People

• A million fucking message boards, email, Twitter, any number of free tools, being limited only by time and your imagination? If I’d had the internet in 1988 I WOULD OWN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY BY NOW AND WOULD PUT HUNDREDS OF YOU TO DEATH EACH DAY JUST FOR FUN AND IT WOULD BE THE LAW

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Time
  • Country
  • Fun

• I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Imagination