Ai Weiwei Quotes, Luxury Quotes, Kind Quotes

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

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

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I never think any place is better than others.

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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

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I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

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I don't believe in a sense of home.

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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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Creativity is the power to act.

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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

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Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable. There's no such thing as "fixed" culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems. Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I'll find my way - or get totally lost.

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Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.

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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it's necessary or that it's not even worth to do it. It's just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.

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