Ai Weiwei Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Artist Quotes

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

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Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

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Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.

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The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

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I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

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I 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.

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My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

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My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.

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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.

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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

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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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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

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