It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
AI WEIWEIMy typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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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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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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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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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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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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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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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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