If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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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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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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I never regret anything.
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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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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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