Chinese Quote by Michael Craig-Martin Download Open image “My great grandmother was Chinese .” — Michael Craig-Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinese Grandmother Great grandmother
My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles. — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I'm not Chinese, but both of my parents were born in Iran; my brother and I were the first ones born here. First in… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents living in… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
So when people used to call me 'chinki' I thought that okay maybe my mother is Chinese so they are calling me that. It… — Jwala Gutta Copy Share Image
As a child, I didn't even realize I was Chinese. I was Singaporean, but my identity was wrapped up in the culture I was… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was… — Michael Craig-Martin 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