I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
AI WEIWEII think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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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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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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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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