Creativity is the power to act.
AI WEIWEIEven if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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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 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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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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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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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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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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