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Contemporary Artist Inspirational Quotes (378)

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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
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.
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Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.
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Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.
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We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.
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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.
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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.
Ai Weiwei
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