I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
AI WEIWEII never regret anything.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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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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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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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.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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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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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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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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