This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
AI WEIWEII’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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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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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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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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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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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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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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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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