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.
AI WEIWEII don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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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, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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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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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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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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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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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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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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