A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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