What did Ai Weiwei mean by: If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for? - Ai Weiwei Contemporary artist · China Copy
+ Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn’t need a monumental Olympics. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ai Weiwei, Olympics, Self-confidence, 0 - Ai Weiwei Contemporary artist · China
+ Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ai Weiwei, Gold, Judging, 0 - Ai Weiwei Contemporary artist · China
+ To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ai Weiwei, Express Yourself, 0 - Ai Weiwei Contemporary artist · China
+ If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ai Weiwei, Artist, Dignity, Rights, 0 - Ai Weiwei Contemporary artist · China
+ Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ai Weiwei, Attitude, Individual, 0 - Ai Weiwei Contemporary artist · China
+ Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ai Weiwei, Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, 0 - Ai Weiwei Contemporary artist · China
+ If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger. Feraz Zeid, September 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Ai Weiwei, Danger, Strength, 0 - Ai Weiwei Contemporary artist · China
+ Art needs to stand for something. Feraz Zeid, August 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Ai Weiwei, Art, Stand For Something, 0 - Ai Weiwei Contemporary artist · China
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
