We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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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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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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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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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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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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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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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