It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
AI WEIWEIThey very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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 have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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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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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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