For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
AI WEIWEI[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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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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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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