Ai Weiwei Quotes, Luxury Quotes, Desire Quotes

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

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I never think any place is better than others.

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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

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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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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

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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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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

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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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I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

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My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

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I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

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I never had a sense of home.

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New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

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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 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 believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

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