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.
AI WEIWEIThe importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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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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I never think any place is better than others.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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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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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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