I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
AI WEIWEII loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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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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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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