“There are certain models who might not be considered beautiful. I think personality is more important than looks.” Quote by Carine Roitfeld
“I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.” PeopleLittlesRememberSawsDrugRainStandingCornersI RealizedBuyingApartmentTrafficRainyRainy DayStoops Author:Ai Weiwei
“In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.” IfsHandsWalksKeysFollowingNeighborhoodApartmentLooking Back80s Author:Ai Weiwei
“My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.” PeopleShouldTryingKindDifferentDesireGamesPoorLevelsCitiesRichDesperateSurvivingDifferent Levels Author:Ai Weiwei
“It's very difficult to know when you're crossing the boundary. I hate the word boundary because I never think about it when taking a picture. Very often it doesn't mean anything because it depends on who's looking at the picture more than the content of the picture itself.” ThinkingKnowsMeanHateDifficultDependsI HateBoundariesCrossings Author:Carine Roitfeld
“Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.” LongDoneWholePoliticalFatherInterestLosesStruggleSeeingGenerationsHappenedNew YorkPossibilityLong TimeChinaDamageJust BeingLife StrugglePolitical Struggle Author:Ai Weiwei
“I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.” My OwnMy Own Happiness Author:Ai Weiwei
“I think the first picture taken is often the best one.” ThinkingFirstsTakenPicture Taken Author:Carine Roitfeld
“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.” WorldArtDifferentHappensIndividualCitiesNew YorkDisappearThings HappenArt World Author:Ai Weiwei
“Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.” PeopleWorldArtSchoolArtistUnderstandingGoneDenialLegacyHumanistExposedMainstreamPublishingEngagingModernismArt SchoolAvant Garde Author:Tommy McCarthy
“Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.” KindStatesSpiritArtistCultureUnderstandingUnitedUnited StatesMaterialsProductsOrdinaryCapitalismProfoundWesternWarhol Author:Ai Weiwei