People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
AI WEIWEI[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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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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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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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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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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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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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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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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