I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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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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