My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
AI WEIWEII don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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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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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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I want people to see their own power.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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