It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
AI WEIWEIThere’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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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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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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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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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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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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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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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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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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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