I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
AI WEIWEII don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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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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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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I never had a sense of home.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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