Art Quote by Ai Weiwei

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

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

I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as to a…

— Gao Xingjian

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

— Ai Weiwei

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

— Ang Lee

In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or…

— Ai Weiwei

I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a…

— Adrian Tomine

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

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

— Roger Ballen

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

I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to…

— Alice Neel