China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
AI WEIWEII don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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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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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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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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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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