Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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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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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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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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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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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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