I never had a sense of home.
AI WEIWEINew York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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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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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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I never regret anything.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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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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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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