Ai Weiwei Quotes, Art Quotes, Reality Quotes

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.

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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

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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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I don't believe in a sense of home.

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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

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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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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

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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 experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.

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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

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The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

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For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

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The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn't promote it. There isn't a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.

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I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

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Each year, more people want to become artists.

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