Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
AI WEIWEIThe media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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If 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.
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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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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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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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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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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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Society becomes very destructive.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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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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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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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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