I don’t believe in a sense of home.
AI WEIWEIIt’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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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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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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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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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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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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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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