The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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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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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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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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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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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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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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