For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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I never had a sense of home.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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