5001 quotes by artists for you to enjoy

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer. Bridget Riley

Think Christianity Something Had Loss Offer Lack Center Certainties

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt. Brigid Berlin

Sunlight About Dirt Terrible Terrible Thing Shows Thing

Only individual creativity can bring about real social development. Cai Guo-Qiang

Creativity About Only Individual Development Real Social Social Development Bring

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself. Cai Guo-Qiang

Myself Liberate Medium Way Gunpowder Became Using

One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is I was always looking for a visual language that goes beyond the boundary of nations, and so I found gunpowder. Cai Guo-Qiang

Good Language Looking Luck Other Good Luck Visual Gunpowder Had Environment Boundary Beyond Always Goes Nations Reason Exposed Chose Found

Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books. Cai Guo-Qiang

Me World Mother Father Closed Society Side Books Those Though Classic Brought Window Windows Unseen Invisible Another Were Western Chinese Grandmother Really Explore Even Two

I tend to be cautious and rational, prone to keep everything under control. Cai Guo-Qiang

Control Everything Prone Rational Tend Cautious Keep

In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another kind of China. A more open China. Cai Guo-Qiang

Even though China was a very closed country, they thought of themselves as the center of the world. It is an ethnic characteristic. After I went to Japan, I had a totally different view. The Japanese are always talking about what the Western world is doing. There is the anxious feeling of an outsider. Cai Guo-Qiang

World Thought Feeling Country Closed Though Characteristic Totally About Had Outsider Talking Always Doing Western Very Western World Anxious Different After Center China Japan Japanese Themselves Ethnic View Even Different View

I'm always oscillating between if I should sprinkle more gunpowder or less. But if I put too much gunpowder, there may be holes throughout the silk. If not enough, the power and energy would not be shown. Cai Guo-Qiang

Too Much Power Energy Too Enough Would Gunpowder Silk More Throughout Put Between Always May Holes Much Should Less Shown

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be. Caio Fonseca

Good You Know Until How Very Going Works Phase Last

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic. Caio Fonseca

You Together Intelligence World Job Invent Way Say Would Logic Give Put Abstraction Also Identity Real Quirky The Real World Real World Interest Forms Them Realize Engage Your Keeps Things Inner Symbols