We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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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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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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