In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
AI WEIWEIThe 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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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.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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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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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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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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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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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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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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