New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
AI WEIWEII want people to see their own power.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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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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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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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 it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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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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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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