I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
AI WEIWEII think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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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 wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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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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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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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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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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