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.
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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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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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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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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I want people to see their own power.
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