If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
AI WEIWEIOverturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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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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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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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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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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