Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
AI WEIWEIThe so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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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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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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