I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
AI WEIWEIIt is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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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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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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