Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
AI WEIWEITo call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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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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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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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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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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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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