There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
AI WEIWEIOf course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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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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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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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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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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