You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
AI WEIWEIEven 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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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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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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