I never think any place is better than others.
AI WEIWEIThere 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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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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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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