My father was also a painter - actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I was growing up as a cautious kid. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition, I found gunpowder gradually as a very suitable medium for exploration. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
I lived in Japan for eight years before moving to New York, but I was looking forward to a place like America to change… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces.… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
I have always found that if, while creating an artwork, the artist constantly feels that some accident would occur if he is not careful,… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
