Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
AI WEIWEIThe Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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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 think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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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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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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