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Contemporary Artist Inspirational Quotes (378)

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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
Ai Weiwei
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
Ai Weiwei
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it's necessary or that it's not even worth to do it. It's just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.
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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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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
Ai Weiwei
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
Ai Weiwei
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New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's quite narrow-minded. There wasn't much encouragement or opportunities for any artist - not just Chinese artists.
Ai Weiwei
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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I never regret anything.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.
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It's really rubbish that some kind of technical learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
Ai Weiwei
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