Art Quote by Ai Weiwei

Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so…

— Ai Weiwei

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

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

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my…

— Jenny Zhang

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 first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

— Jenny Zhang

In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart.…

— Porochista Khakpour

I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.

— Michael Craig-Martin

To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

— Ai Weiwei

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took…

— Mira Sorvino

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

— Philippe Falardeau

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