A small act is worth a million thoughts.
AI WEIWEIAt the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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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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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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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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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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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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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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I want people to see their own power.
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