Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
AI WEIWEII think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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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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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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I never regret anything.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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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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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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