The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
AI WEIWEIEverything is art. Everything is politics.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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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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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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