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.
AI WEIWEIThis world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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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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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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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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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 also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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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 people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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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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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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