I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
AI WEIWEII don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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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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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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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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