How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
AI WEIWEIDuring the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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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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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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