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.
AI WEIWEII have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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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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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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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. Art should live in the heart of the people.
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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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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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