For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
AI WEIWEINothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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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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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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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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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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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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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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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 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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