It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
AI WEIWEINew York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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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.
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As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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