Ai Weiwei Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Pain, People

• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Wall, Communication

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

• The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Winning, Anything Can Happen

  "Artistic Licence". www.economist.com. May 05, 2012.

• I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Important

  "Artist Ai Weiwei: China crushes dissenting voices", www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2012.

• Everything is art. Everything is politics.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, World, Changing The World

  "Weiwei-isms, By Ai Weiwei, trans. Larry Warsh". www.independent.co.uk. January 11, 2013.

• I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Needs

  "‘Twitter Is My City’: An Exclusive Interview with Ai Weiwei". Interview with Jonathan Landreth, foreignpolicy.com. August 13, 2012.

• 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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  "Ai Weiwei 'Does Not Feel Powerful'". www.bbc.com. October 13, 2011.

• The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Fighting, Purpose

• Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

  Ai Weiwei

  Meaningful, Country, Art

  "China's art world does not exist" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

• 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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Fighting, Expression

  "Artist Ai Weiwei: China crushes dissenting voices". www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2012.

• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Expression

  "'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 21, 2011.

• My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, People, Political

• I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Circles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• [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

• I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Important

  "It’s Not Beautiful" by Evan Osnos, www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

• China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, People, Curiosity

  "Ai Weiwei: 'China's Art World Does Not Exist'". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

• I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Circles, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Reality, Thinking

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

• Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Joy, Life Is

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

• This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Philosophy, Form

  "Zodiac sculptures display jailed Chinese artist's vision" By Alexandra Munroe, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2011.

• 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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Lonely, Art, Who I Am

• So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Fake, Chinese

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

• Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

• I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Embarrassed, Shows

  "Q&A: Ai Weiwei". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2012.

• Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Museums, Modern

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

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