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.
AI WEIWEIIf 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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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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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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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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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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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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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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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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