You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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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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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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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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