I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
AI WEIWEINow you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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