I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
AI WEIWEIThe media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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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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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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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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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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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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