Each year, more people want to become artists.
AI WEIWEIAnd who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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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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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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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.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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There isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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