I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
AI WEIWEII 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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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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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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