I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
AI WEIWEII never think any place is better than others.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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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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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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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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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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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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I 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.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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