Quotes by Art 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. Ai Weiwei chinese fake art 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. Ai Weiwei chinese art thinking 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. Ai Weiwei meaningful country art China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor. Ai Weiwei curiosity people art I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it. Ai Weiwei embarrassed shows art Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. Ai Weiwei skills expression art My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities. Ai Weiwei political people art Art needs to stand for something. Ai Weiwei stand-for-something art needs I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it. Ai Weiwei circles people art New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world. Ai Weiwei cities new-york art In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss Ai Yazawa kissing world art As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. Aiden Wilson Tozer excellence character art If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship. Aiden Wilson Tozer prayer art jesus God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?' Aiden Wilson Tozer self art needs To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us. Aiden Wilson Tozer worship-music church art And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest. Aiden Wilson Tozer humility home art Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity. Aiden Wilson Tozer civilization art thinking Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven. Aiden Wilson Tozer heaven father art God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. Aiden Wilson Tozer worship want art Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there. Aiden Wilson Tozer simple believe art «89101112131415161718»