I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
AI WEIWEIIf human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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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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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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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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