During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
AI WEIWEIFor years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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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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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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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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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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