Ai Weiwei Quotes, Important Quotes, Wish Quotes

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

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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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I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

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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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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.

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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

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I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

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This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

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China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.

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Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.

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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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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.

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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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