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.
AI WEIWEII spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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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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Creativity is the power to act.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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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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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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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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