If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
AI WEIWEIEverything is art. Everything is politics.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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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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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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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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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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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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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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