You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
AI WEIWEII think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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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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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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I never regret anything.
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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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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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