I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
AI WEIWEIArt should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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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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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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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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