Cai Guo-Qiang

Only individual creativity can bring about real social development.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

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Quotes by Cai Guo-Qiang