I want people to see their own power.
AI WEIWEIWithout freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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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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