Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
AI WEIWEIAs long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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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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