Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
AI WEIWEII never had a sense of home.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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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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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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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’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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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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