Ai Weiwei Quotes, Believe Quotes, Games Quotes

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

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In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.

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I want people to see their own power.

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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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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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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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

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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things. Even today the borders they're seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.

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We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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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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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.

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The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

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China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

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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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