Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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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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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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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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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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