Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
AI WEIWEIBut personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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I never had a sense of home.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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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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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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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.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.
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