No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
AI WEIWEII spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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I never regret anything.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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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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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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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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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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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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