People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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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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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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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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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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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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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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