For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
AI WEIWEICreativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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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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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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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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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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