Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
AI WEIWEII have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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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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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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I want people to see their own power.
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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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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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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