That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
AI WEIWEII think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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I never think any place is better than others.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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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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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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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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