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.
AI WEIWEICreativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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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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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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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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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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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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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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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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