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.
AI WEIWEITo give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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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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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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