Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
AI WEIWEITechnology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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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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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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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 was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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