What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
AI WEIWEII don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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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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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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