Ai Weiwei Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• 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.

• Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

  Ai Weiwei

  Real, Feelings, Purpose

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

• The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything.

  Ai Weiwei

  School, Media, Forget Everything

• You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

  Ai Weiwei

  Expression, Needs, Purpose

• I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, Purpose, West

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

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