I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
AI WEIWEII saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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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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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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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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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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Even 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.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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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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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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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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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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