The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
AI WEIWEII think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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I never had a sense of home.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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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.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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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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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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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.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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