The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
AI WEIWEIAs long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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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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