I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
AI WEIWEILife is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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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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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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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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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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