Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
AI WEIWEIIf I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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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.
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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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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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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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It [success] is really by mistake.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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