The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
AI WEIWEIThe project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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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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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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I never had a sense of home.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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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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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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I want people to see their own power.
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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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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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