Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
AI WEIWEIThere’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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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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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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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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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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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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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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