I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
AI WEIWEIIf I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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