I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
AI WEIWEINow many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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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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Society becomes very destructive.
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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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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 by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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