By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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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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I never had a sense of home.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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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.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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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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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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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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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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