Chinese Quote by Ai Weiwei Download Open image “Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.” — Ai Weiwei ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinese Chinese culture Culture Modern Weak
The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Chinese people like to do things with a low profile; they do not like to expose their wealth. — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The biggest problem in Chinese society is not money, but rather the lack of a developed civil society. Civil society has received a lot… — Bi Feiyu Copy Share Image
In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is… — Jung Chang 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
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain 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
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people… — Philip French Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space… — Mary Heilmann Copy Share Image
My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats. — Jason Wu Copy Share Image