[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
AI WEIWEII’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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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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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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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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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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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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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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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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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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