It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
AI WEIWEIEven 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I never had a sense of home.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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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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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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