Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
AI WEIWEICreativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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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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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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