If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
AI WEIWEII never had a sense of home.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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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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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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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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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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