Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
AI WEIWEIThe Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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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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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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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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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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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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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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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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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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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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