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Ai Weiwei Quotes about Art - Page 2

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All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

Art, Children, People

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

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

Art, Years, Museums

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

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.

Art, Character, Thinking

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

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.

Art, Reality, Thinking

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

I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been preparing for half a year. I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there - any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog. I'm just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.

Art, Years, Chinese

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

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.

Art, Fake, Chinese

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

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

Art, Museums, Modern

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

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.

Art, People, Curiosity

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

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.

Art, People, Political

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.

Meaningful, Country, Art

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

Art needs to stand for something.

Art, Needs, Stand For Something

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

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

Art, Embarrassed, Shows

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

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

Art, Thinking, Chinese

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

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

Art, Circles, People

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

Art, Expression, Skills

"Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

Art, New York, Cities

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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