80s Quote by Ai Weiwei

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

— Ai Weiwei

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think…

— Ai Weiwei

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social…

— Arne Glimcher

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of…

— Jason Wu

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western…

— Michael Craig-Martin

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

For me, being an artist was a thing that, like, rich people in New York and L.A. and Paris and Rome did. It wasn't…

— Cord Jefferson

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes…

— J. G. Ballard

Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you can cross…

— Robert Lepage

There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a…

— Brice Marden