Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
AI WEIWEII call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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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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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
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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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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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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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I never think any place is better than others.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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