A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
AI WEIWEII grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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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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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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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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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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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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