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.
AI WEIWEINationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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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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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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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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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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