It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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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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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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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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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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I never regret anything.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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