Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
AI WEIWEIOf course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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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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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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