The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
AI WEIWEIHe will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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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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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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