Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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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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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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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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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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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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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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