As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
AI WEIWEISociety becomes very destructive.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I never regret anything.
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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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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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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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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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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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We 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.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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