They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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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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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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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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