For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
AI WEIWEIIt also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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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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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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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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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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