The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
AI WEIWEII want people to see their own power.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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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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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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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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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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