I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
AI WEIWEII don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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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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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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It 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.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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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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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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