Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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I never had a sense of home.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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