The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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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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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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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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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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I want people to see their own power.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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