We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
AI WEIWEII never think any place is better than others.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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I never had a sense of home.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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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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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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