Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
AI WEIWEIIt’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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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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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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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