I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
AI WEIWEIThis so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
-
-
People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
AI WEIWEI -
Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
AI WEIWEI -
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
AI WEIWEI -
I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
AI WEIWEI -
We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
AI WEIWEI -
In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
AI WEIWEI -
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
AI WEIWEI -
Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
AI WEIWEI -
I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
AI WEIWEI -
Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
AI WEIWEI -
Everyone of us is a potential convict.
AI WEIWEI -
Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
AI WEIWEI -
Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
AI WEIWEI -
By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
AI WEIWEI -
I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
AI WEIWEI