Ai Weiwei Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Generations Quotes

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

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Politics 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.

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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

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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'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.

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China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.

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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful. It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.

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Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

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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 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’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.

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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

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I want people to see their own power.

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I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think a dish of sand is a good metaphor because we have the Internet. We don't have to be physically united. You can be an individual and have your own set of values but join others in certain struggles. There is nothing more powerful than that.

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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

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