I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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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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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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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.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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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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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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