There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
AI WEIWEII never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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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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Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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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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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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