Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
AI WEIWEII think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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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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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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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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The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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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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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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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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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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