For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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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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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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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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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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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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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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