I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
AI WEIWEIChina is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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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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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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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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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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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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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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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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