This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
AI WEIWEIIn this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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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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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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