The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
AI WEIWEIThat’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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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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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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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 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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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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