Ai Weiwei Quotes, East Quotes, World Quotes

The world is sphere, has no East or West.

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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

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I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

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It [success] is really by mistake.

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Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

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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 grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

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

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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

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The people who control culture in China have no culture.

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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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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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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

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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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I never regret anything.

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