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.
AI WEIWEIOf course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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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 always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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