Ai Weiwei Quotes, Writing Quotes, Interviews Quotes

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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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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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

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A small act is worth a million thoughts.

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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

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The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

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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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Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.

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I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.

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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

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Each year, more people want to become artists.

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

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