Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
AI WEIWEII think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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