I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
AI WEIWEII never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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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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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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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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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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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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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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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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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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