It [success] is really by mistake.
AI WEIWEIMy angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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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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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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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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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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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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