Everything is art. Everything is politics.
AI WEIWEIIf people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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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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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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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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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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