A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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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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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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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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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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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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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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