The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
AI WEIWEINothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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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 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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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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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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