The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
AI WEIWEIAs a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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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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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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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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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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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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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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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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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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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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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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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.
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I never had a sense of home.
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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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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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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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