Art Quote by Ai Weiwei Download Open image “If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?” — Ai Weiwei ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Dignity Human dignity Humans Ifs Respect Rights Speak
That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in the world.… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People should stop thinking that an artist that controls what he does is a bad thing. A lot of artists today are just victims,… — Daft Punk 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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