Art Quote by Ai Weiwei Download Open image “I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.” — Ai Weiwei ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Embarrassed Even Most Show Shows Though
The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't -… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set. — Emily Rose Copy Share Image
My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them. — George Dzundza Copy Share Image
The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it… — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
There's something about TV shows and the format that becomes a bit more personal. People watch two, three in a row before they get… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized… — Katy Perry 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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