Ai Weiwei Quotes

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

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• My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

  

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• And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

  

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

  

  Ai Weiwei
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