I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
AI WEIWEII believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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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 am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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