Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
AI WEIWEI[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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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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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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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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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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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 deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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