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.
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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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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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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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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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 IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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