I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
AI WEIWEIIt’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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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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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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I never regret anything.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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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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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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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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