I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
AI WEIWEII spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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