Everyone of us is a potential convict.
AI WEIWEII don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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I never had a sense of home.
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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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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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