I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
AI WEIWEICensorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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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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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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