Cai Guo Qiang Quotes

Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.
Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.
Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
Even though China was a very closed country, they thought of themselves as the center of the world. It is an ethnic characteristic. After I went to Japan, I had a totally different view. The Japanese are always talking about what the Western world is doing. There is the anxious feeling of an outsider.
Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.
Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.
I do believe every artwork has its own charisma. Sometimes it's different from what I expect. When a work is finished, it exudes its own charisma and lives its life independently.
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
I have always found that if, while creating an artwork, the artist constantly feels that some accident would occur if he is not careful, then it is a very significant moment and a significant work.
I lived in Japan for eight years before moving to New York, but I was looking forward to a place like America to change my opinion on things and force me to come up with new perspectives.
I tend to be cautious and rational, prone to keep everything under control.
I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition, I found gunpowder gradually as a very suitable medium for exploration.
I'm always oscillating between if I should sprinkle more gunpowder or less. But if I put too much gunpowder, there may be holes throughout the silk. If not enough, the power and energy would not be shown.
In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.
In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another kind of China. A more open China.
In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why I have a lot of curiosity about the unseen force and invisible things.
Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves.
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Cai Guo-Qiang
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08 December, 1957
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