My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
AI WEIWEINew York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I never had a sense of home.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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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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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy 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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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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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 purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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I never regret anything.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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