Creativity is the power to act.
AI WEIWEIThe Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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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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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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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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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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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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