My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
AI WEIWEII believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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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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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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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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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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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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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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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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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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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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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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