I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
AI WEIWEIEverything is art. Everything is politics.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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I never regret anything.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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