Ai Weiwei: Quotes about art

Ai Weiwei is Chinese concept artist. Explore interesting quotes on art.

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“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.”

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" Artist Ai Weiwei: China Crushes Dissenting Voices http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/11/artist-ai-weiwei-china-crushes-dissenting-voices/.," in: Fox News, June 11, 2012. <br class="br">2010-, 2012

“I don’t really care that much about if I want to be more successful or less successful in art, because I never think life and art should be separate. What’s life if you don’t have conversation and joy and anger?”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei: 'Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again...', 2011

“I definitely know people who are shameless enough to give up basic values. I see this kind of art, and when I see it I feel ashamed. In China they treat art as some form of decoration, a self-indulgence. It is pretending to be art. It looks like art. It sells like art. But it is really a piece of shit.”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’, 2011