What counts in the end is what the government does.
AI WEIWEINothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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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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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
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So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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