Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
AI WEIWEINow many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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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 grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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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 don’t believe in a sense of home.
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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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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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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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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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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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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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