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.
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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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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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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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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