We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I never think any place is better than others.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Society becomes very destructive.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Creativity is the power to act.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei 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.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei 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.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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