[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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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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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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There isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Art 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.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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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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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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