[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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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 it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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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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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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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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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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