If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
AI WEIWEII am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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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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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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