I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
AI WEIWEIThe practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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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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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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