Ai Weiwei Quotes, Art Quotes, Children Quotes

All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

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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 U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.

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China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the world, even though the veil of China has been lifted many times as a result of globalization.

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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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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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I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

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Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

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That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

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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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It [success] is really by mistake.

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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

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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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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 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 was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.

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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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My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

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