People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
AI WEIWEINowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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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 Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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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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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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