I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
AI WEIWEII’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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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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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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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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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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