Ai Weiwei Quotes, Past Quotes, Desire Quotes

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

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I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

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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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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.

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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we'll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.

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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

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Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

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

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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

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

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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

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Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.

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

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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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I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology - it's not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China's problems are not just China's problems - they're human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.

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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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