I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
AI WEIWEII don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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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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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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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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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 believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.
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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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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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