Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
AI WEIWEII think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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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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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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