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.
AI WEIWEII grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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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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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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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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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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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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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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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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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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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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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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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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