Ai Weiwei Quotes, New York Quotes, Father Quotes

Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.

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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

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In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

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

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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.

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Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

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China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.

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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

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

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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.

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Creativity is the power to act.

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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.

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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.

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I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

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