Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
AI WEIWEIThe museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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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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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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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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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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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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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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