As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
AI WEIWEIEach year, more people want to become artists.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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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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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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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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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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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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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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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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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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