I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
AI WEIWEINothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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I want people to see their own power.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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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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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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