A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
AI WEIWEIIn China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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There isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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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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I never regret anything.
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People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
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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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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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I never had a sense of home.
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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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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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