I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
AI WEIWEIPolitics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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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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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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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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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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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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