My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
AI WEIWEIAnd the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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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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I never had a sense of home.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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