I don’t believe in a sense of home.
AI WEIWEIIt’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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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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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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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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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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