If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
AI WEIWEIThe Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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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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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.
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