If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
AI WEIWEIThe deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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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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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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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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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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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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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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