The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
AI WEIWEIIt became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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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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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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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 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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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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