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.
AI WEIWEIPolitics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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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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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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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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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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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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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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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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