Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
AI WEIWEII never regret anything.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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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, so nobody cares.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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