Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
AI WEIWEIThis so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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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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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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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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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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