After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
AI WEIWEISelling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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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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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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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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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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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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