Even 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.
AI WEIWEIMaybe being powerful means to be fragile.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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