Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
AI WEIWEIThere’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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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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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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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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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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