They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
AI WEIWEII think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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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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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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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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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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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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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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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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