Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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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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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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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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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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