What counts in the end is what the government does.
AI WEIWEII never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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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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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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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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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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