[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
AI WEIWEII want people to see their own power.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my 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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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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