I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
AI WEIWEII have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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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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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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