„Aber für mich ist nur wichtig, dass ich meinen eigenen Ideen treu bleibe.“
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/ai-weiwei-ich-mache-mir-sorgen-um-die-deutsche-kultur-a-a51548f6-2248-44f4-8984-3c2b4f282e14
Ai Weiwei ist ein chinesischer Konzeptkünstler, Bildhauer und Kurator. Er ist der Sohn des Dichters und Malers Ai Qing und Halbbruder des Malers Ai Xuan.
„Aber für mich ist nur wichtig, dass ich meinen eigenen Ideen treu bleibe.“
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/ai-weiwei-ich-mache-mir-sorgen-um-die-deutsche-kultur-a-a51548f6-2248-44f4-8984-3c2b4f282e14
„Ich mache mir nur Sorgen um die deutsche Kultur.“
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/ai-weiwei-ich-mache-mir-sorgen-um-die-deutsche-kultur-a-a51548f6-2248-44f4-8984-3c2b4f282e14
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/ai-weiwei-ich-mache-mir-sorgen-um-die-deutsche-kultur-a-a51548f6-2248-44f4-8984-3c2b4f282e14
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/ai-weiwei-ich-mache-mir-sorgen-um-die-deutsche-kultur-a-a51548f6-2248-44f4-8984-3c2b4f282e14
“Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know.”
Ai Weiwei, interview in “ Change http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/episode-change,” Episode 1, Season Six, Art: 21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, PBS, April 2012.
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2010-, I have to speak for people who are afraid, 2010
“During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.”
Ai Weiwei on Twitter in English (beta). (December 10, 2011) http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12
“Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter. All his quotations are within 140 words.”
2000-09, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2009
Wines, Michael. “ China’s Impolitic Artist, Still Waiting to Be Silenced http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/world/asia/28weiwei.html?pagewanted=all.” New York Times, November 28, 2009.
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“Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.”
Solway, Diane. “Enforced Disappearance.” W Magazine, November 2011.
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2010-, Ai Weiwei Does Not Feel Powerful, 2011
“I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.”
“ Artist’s Quotes http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-ai-weiwei/artists-quotes”. Excerpted from a conversation with curators Juliet Bingham and Marko Daniel, Beijing, May 31 and June 1, 2010. Tate Museums, UK.
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“Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.”
2000-09, Truth to Power, 2009
“I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.”
Osnos, Evan. “ It’s Not Beautiful: An Artist Takes On the System http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/24/100524fa_fact_osnos?currentPage=all.” New Yorker, May 24, 2010, 54–63.
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Ai Weiwei, “In China, Is Censorship the Mother of Creativity?” Interview on The Stream, Aljazeera, April 16, 2012.
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Gill, Chris. “ Ai Weiwei: ‘To use art is not enough.’ http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/“To-use-art-is-not-enough”/19818” Art Newspaper, December 3, 2009.
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2000-09, An Artist’s Ordeal. 2009
2010-, Ai Weiwei: The Dissident, 2011
“Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.”
2010-, Ai Weiwei: 'Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again...', 2011
2000-09, Happiness Can’t Be Faked, 2008
“They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.”
Moore, Malcolm. " 'Ai Weiwei: "The police can be very tough, but I can be tougher sometimes.”' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/9299885/Ai-Weiwei-The-police-can-be-very-tough-but-I-can-be-tougher-sometimes.html," in: Telegraph, May 30, 2012.
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“Expressing oneself is like a drug. I’m so addicted to it.”
2000-09, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2009
2010-, Ai Weiwei Does Not Feel Powerful, 2011
“ Why I’ll Stay Away from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/07/olympics2008.china.” Guardian, August 7, 2008.
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“The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.”
“ Ai Weiwei: Artistic Licence http://www.economist.com/node/21554178.” Economist, May 5, 2012.
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Ai Weiwei on Twitter in English (beta). http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/ (January 10, 2011)
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12
“Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.”
2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011
“I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.”
“ Artist’s Quotes http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-ai-weiwei/artists-quote.” Excerpted from a conversation with curators Juliet Bingham and Marko Daniel, Beijing, May 31 and June 1, 2010. Tate Museums, UK.
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2000-09, Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism, 2009