If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
AI WEIWEII don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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