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.
AI WEIWEII also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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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.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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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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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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