That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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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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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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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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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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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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