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.
AI WEIWEII want people to see their own power.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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There isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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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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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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