I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
AI WEIWEIEven though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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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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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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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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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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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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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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