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Ai Weiwei Inspirational Quotes (320)

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I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology - it's not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China's problems are not just China's problems - they're human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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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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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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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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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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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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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 don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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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 believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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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 whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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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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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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It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.
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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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