Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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I want people to see their own power.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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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 Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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