It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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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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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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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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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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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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