They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
AI WEIWEIThe so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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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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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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