The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
AI WEIWEIThis week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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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.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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The 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.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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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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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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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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