I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
AI WEIWEINow many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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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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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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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.
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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