Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
AI WEIWEIJust look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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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.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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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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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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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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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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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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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
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