Ai Weiwei Quotes - Page 7

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• The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

  Ai Weiwei

  Littles, World, Possibility

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

  Ai Weiwei

  Democracy, Soil, Wealth

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

  Ai Weiwei

  Names, Age, Craziness

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• A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.

  Ai Weiwei

  Creativity, Healthy, Wish

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.

  Ai Weiwei

  Ideas, People, Worldview

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

  Ai Weiwei

  Dream, Years, Games

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

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Life Is, Art Is

  "Shame on Me". www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.

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• Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

  Ai Weiwei

  Stories, Dictatorship, Turns

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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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Care, Today

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

  Ai Weiwei

  Men, Giving, Doubt

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Thinking, Museums

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

  Ai Weiwei

  Regret, Pride, Kind

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

  Ai Weiwei

  Book, Ginsberg

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.

  Ai Weiwei

  Museums, Government, Years

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

  Ai Weiwei

  Directors, Moments, China

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.

  Ai Weiwei

  Lying, Real, Hero

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

  Ai Weiwei

  New York, Talking, Cities

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Society becomes very destructive.

  Ai Weiwei

  Destructive

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I never think any place is better than others.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.

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  Thinking, Obstacles, Spending Time

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• [Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

  Ai Weiwei

  Unique, People, Giving

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

  Ai Weiwei

  New York, Artist, Cities

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called "Fifth Generation." I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.

  Ai Weiwei

  Real, School, Years

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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

  Ai Weiwei

  Emotional, Today, China

  Source: www.believermag.com

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

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Attitude, Long

  Source: www.believermag.com

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