The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
AI WEIWEICreativity is the power to act.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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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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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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