In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
AI WEIWEII don’t believe in a sense of home.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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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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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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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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