During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
AI WEIWEIArt should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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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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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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