Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
AI WEIWEI…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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It [success] is really by mistake.
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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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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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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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