Cai Guo-Qiang Quotes

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

Sometimes it requires national impetus to deliver real change.

An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That's where you can get real change.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

I'm going to keep innovating.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.