What counts in the end is what the government does.
AI WEIWEIChoices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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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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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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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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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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