What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
AI WEIWEIWe 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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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 was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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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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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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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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