I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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 want people to see their own power.
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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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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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