Ai Weiwei Quotes, Successful Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

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How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive. 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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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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New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

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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 have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

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Everyone of us is a potential convict.

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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.

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I never had a sense of home.

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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.

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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. 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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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

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