Ai Weiwei Quotes, Regret Quotes, Pride Quotes

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

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We live in changing times, and many people experience the challenges that come with it. In the face of uncertain futures, no one will know what to expect.

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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

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My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

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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 always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

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I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn't promote it. There isn't a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.

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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

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I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

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My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

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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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