Each year, more people want to become artists.
AI WEIWEII 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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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 never had a sense of home.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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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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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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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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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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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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