The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
AI WEIWEIIt [success] is really by mistake.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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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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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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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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I never think any place is better than others.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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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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Even 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.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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