The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
AI WEIWEIWhen human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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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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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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I never had a sense of home.
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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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