You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
AI WEIWEIThe Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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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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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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The 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.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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I want people to see their own power.
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