In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
AI WEIWEIIt is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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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.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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