It [success] is really by mistake.
AI WEIWEIIf a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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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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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
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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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