If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
AI WEIWEIWithout freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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I never had a sense of home.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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Somehow, 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.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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