I don’t believe in a sense of home.
AI WEIWEIWe are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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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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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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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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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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