A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
AI WEIWEIThe art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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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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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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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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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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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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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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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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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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