I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
AI WEIWEIWe 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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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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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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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.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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I want people to see their own power.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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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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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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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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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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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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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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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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