I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
AI WEIWEIThe Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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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 think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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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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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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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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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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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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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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