Cai Guo-Qiang Quotes

It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

My father was a huge influence on me.

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

I can see parts of my father in 'Kingdom' when I rage like that. I can see my father's frustrations in his life.

My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life.

I hope that a lot of my mother's talents are shown in a lot of the work that I do.

I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.

I come from a family of artists.

I get kids who say, 'Oh, I love your movie, but my mum loves your dad.' It's really nice to be able to share that with him, but it doesn't define who I am career-wise.

I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.

Both my parents are actors.

I am a product of my father's work.

It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'

I don't come from a family of artists.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.