I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
AI WEIWEII 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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I never regret anything.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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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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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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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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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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