This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
AI WEIWEII think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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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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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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