China Quote by Ai Weiwei Download Open image “I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.” — Ai Weiwei ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare China Museums Past Past present Thinking Time
In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at." — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm,… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial. — Pontus Hulten Copy Share Image
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion,… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
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… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
In China, people are moving from bigger cars to small hatches, and interestingly, the Indian market is graduating to bigger cars and sedans. I… — Winfried Vahland Copy Share Image
Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day. — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Put plainly, China seems determined to steal its way up the economic ladder, at our expense. — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia. — Li Peng Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
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