As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
AI WEIWEIIt’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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I never had a sense of home.
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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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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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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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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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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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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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