Ai Weiwei Quotes, Independent Quotes, Ideas Quotes

If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.

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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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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

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

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My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.

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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

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

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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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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: "You and I are divided. 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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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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In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

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All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

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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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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

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If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.

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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

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