And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
AI WEIWEILiberty is about our rights to question everything.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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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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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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