A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
AI WEIWEIThe museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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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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I never think any place is better than others.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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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 believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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