A small act is worth a million thoughts.
AI WEIWEIThis so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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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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