I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
AI WEIWEIThere are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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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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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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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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