In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
AI WEIWEIAny politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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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 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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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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