I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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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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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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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 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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Creativity is the power to act.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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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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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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