Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
AI WEIWEIA nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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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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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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I never had a sense of home.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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