Quotes from Cai Guo-Qiang

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

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.

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

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves.