I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
AI WEIWEIIf 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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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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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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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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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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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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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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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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