To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
AI WEIWEII don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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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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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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