You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
AI WEIWEII never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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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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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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