The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
AI WEIWEIChoices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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It 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.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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