You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
AI WEIWEII think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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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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The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.
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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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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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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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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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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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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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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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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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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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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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