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.
AI WEIWEII’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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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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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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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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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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