Ai Weiwei Quotes, Art Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.

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In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

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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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We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it's necessary or that it's not even worth to do it. 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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That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

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Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable. 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. Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I'll find my way - or get totally lost.

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I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.

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

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I never had a sense of home.

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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

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