I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
AI WEIWEIYou need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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I want people to see their own power.
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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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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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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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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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