As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
AI WEIWEIThe whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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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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It [success] is really by mistake.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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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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