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.
AI WEIWEII think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
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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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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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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 don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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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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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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