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Contemporary Artist Inspirational Quotes (378)

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Art needs to stand for something.
Ai Weiwei
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To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.
JR
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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.
Ai Weiwei
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Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
Ai Weiwei
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I never had a sense of home.
Ai Weiwei
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
Ai Weiwei
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There's always a lot that's making me angry, but it won't tie into the election. I mean nothing against Hilary Clinton. I agree with Hilary on most issues, but campaign finance structure makes me very angry, because it means that politicians are going to have to raise a huge amount of money, which narrows the field dramatically.
Shepard Fairey
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
Ai Weiwei
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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.
Ai Weiwei
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The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
Shepard Fairey
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The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
Shepard Fairey
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I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.
Ai Weiwei
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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.
Ai Weiwei
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
Ai Weiwei
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The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.
Takashi Murakami
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Dont retreat. Retweet!
Ai Weiwei
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.
Ai Weiwei
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
Ai Weiwei
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Sometimes I think you just have to trust that the things you're doing make sense, instead of sitting down and analyzing this and that and, Well, I read Paul-Michel Foucault saying... The world and the universe have a way of resolving themselves eloquently, I think, if you're doing the right things.
Fernando Mastrangelo
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
Ai Weiwei
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I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.
Ai Weiwei
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I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
Ai Weiwei
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