After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
AI WEIWEI[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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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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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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