"We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something."

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Source : "Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism: Review" by Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg.com, October 14, 2009.

Ai Weiwei

#Artist Quotes #Giving Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]”
“It's important to feel what the customer is feeling when he enters the shop.”
“A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.”
“A family is everybody all together.”
“The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large. Through dancing, the youths expressed raw power and rage while achieving euphoria, enhanced self-concept, and a healthy fatigue.”

Source : Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.175, Rowman Altamira
“We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.”
“Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.”
“I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.”

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