The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
AI WEIWEI[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Creativity is the power to act.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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I never regret anything.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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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 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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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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