During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
AI WEIWEISay what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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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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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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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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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
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