Each year, more people want to become artists.
AI WEIWEII am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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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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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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