New york Quotes by Ai Weiwei

10 New york quotes by Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei’s artistic eye turns the cityscape into a series of brief reflections. These ten lines offer a compact glimpse of his perspective on New York’s cultural layers.

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New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

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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,…

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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…

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I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New…

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I loved New York—every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so…

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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…

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I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in…

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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…

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Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I…

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