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.
AI WEIWEIEach year, more people want to become artists.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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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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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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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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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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