You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
AI WEIWEIA nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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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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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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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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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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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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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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