The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
AI WEIWEISomehow, 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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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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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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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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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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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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