What counts in the end is what the government does.
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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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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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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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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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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