Ai Weiwei on creativity
Ai Weiwei303 quotes“Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.”
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I 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.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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