If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
AI WEIWEII wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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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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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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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 think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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