Chinese Art Quotes

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  • I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

  • I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

    Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media
  • Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

    Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing
  • I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

    Art   Thinking   Chinese  
    "Ai Weiwei: 'China's art world does not exist'" by Ai Weiwei:, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.
  • Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

    Art   Italian   Space  
    "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
  • Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

    "China's art world does not exist" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.
  • I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.

    Art   Space   Guy  
    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

    Art   Children   People  
    Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.
  • 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 art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.

    Country   Art   Hands  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

    Art   Fake   Chinese  
    "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.
  • Know the enemy and know yourself.

    Fear   Military   War  
    The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)
  • Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

    Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.
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