Ai Weiwei Quotes, Born Quotes

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

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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

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I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been preparing for half a year. I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there - any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog. I'm just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.

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The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

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Creativity is the power to act.

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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

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Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.

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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

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

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I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.

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Dont retreat. Retweet!

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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

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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 think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

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Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

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Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

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