It [success] is really by mistake.
AI WEIWEIYou need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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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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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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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 don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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