It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
AI WEIWEII think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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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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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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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 small act is worth a million thoughts.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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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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