If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
AI WEIWEIHopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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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 everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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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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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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