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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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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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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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 have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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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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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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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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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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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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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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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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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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