Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
AI WEIWEII think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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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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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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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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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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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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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’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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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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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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