It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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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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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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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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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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