Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
AI WEIWEIWe move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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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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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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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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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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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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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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