I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
AI WEIWEIThey see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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I never regret anything.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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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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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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