In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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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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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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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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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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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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