We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
AI WEIWEISo for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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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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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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