Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
AI WEIWEII have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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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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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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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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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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