I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
AI WEIWEIThe art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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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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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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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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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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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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